We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
With funding from USAID, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) implements the USAID Securing an AIDS-Free Era (SAFE)project to provide support to the Ministry of Health to scale-up cervical cancer services with a specific focus on WLWHin three provinces. USAID SAFE operates in 43 facilities providing free cervical cancer services. Screening is conducted through Visual Inspection using…
HIV testing is critical to ensure early diagnosis and treatment of people living with HIV (PLHIV) which reduces transmission to others. As we move toward HIV epidemic control, index testing and HIV screening tools have been shown to be efficient and effective targeted testing strategies to identify the remaining undiagnosed PLHIV. The USAID SAFE program…
According to UPHIA (2016-2017), only 84% of people living with HIV know their status. The Uganda National Guidelines (2018) recommends assisted partner notification (APN) as a critical strategy to reach and identify at-risk individuals to meet UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. Assisted partner notification provides comprehensive services for persons infected with HIV or STIs and their partners,…
As Zambia edges toward HIV epidemic control, studies and national data showed poor HIV service uptake and higher HIV incidence rates among young people especially adolescent girls and young women 15-24 and men 20-34, with a cycle of HIV transmission that needed to be broken in order to safeguard health, while supporting HIV epidemic control…
Ongoing, effective demand creation is essential to motivate adolescent boys and men to access services. Over the past few years, VMMC programs have gained valuable experience in generating demand for VMMC and matching supply with demand. Based on significant implementation experience, several approaches have proven to lead to considerable increases in service uptake. As countries…
The Jielimishe Uzazi na Afya (JUA) program (2017–2019) is an innovative home visiting, case management intervention to improve health and social outcomes for pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers (10–19 years) and their infants (0–2 years). The JUA program helped achieve elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV among program beneficiaries, having ensured that 100 percent of…
This quick guide is used to provide basic information about vaccine-preventable diseases and their vaccines so that Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) program managers may apply this knowledge of key epidemiologic and clinical features of each vaccine-preventable disease to make decisions for their EPI program. This guide was developed by JSI in 2018.
This End of Project Summary presents The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project’s programmatic achievements in Lesotho from October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019. In Lesotho, AIDSFree supported the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership to reach adolescent girls aged 9–19 and young women aged 20–24 with…
JSI incorporates culturally responsive, person-centered care interventions that are tailored based on age, gender, and sexual orientation into all of its HIV programs. Person-centered care sees clients in their own social context, listening to them, respecting them, involving them in care delivery while honoring their wishes, building their skills and providing the tools to improve…
This End of Project Summary presents The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project’s Tanzania VMMC programmatic achievements from July 22, 2014 to March 31, 2020. AIDSFree worked to improve upon its already successful efforts in various technical fields, including voluntary medical male circumcision and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Managed…
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