COVID-19 Risk Prevention
COVID-19 Risk Prevention HAI worked closely with Ministries of Health and community-based organizations to improve knowledge and practices that help limit the spread of COVID-19. CSM & HAMNASA CONTINUE TO SUPPORT COVID-19 RISK PREVENTION ACTIVIES As of October...
Harmonia: Communities Ending Gender-Based Violence
Harmonia: Communities Ending Gender-Based Violence With an aim to end gender-based violence, the Harmonia Activity is shifting cultural norms at the community level and introducing gender-sensitive health services in Timor-Leste’s public clinics. HARMONIA HAS...
Integrating HIV Service Delivery
Integrating HIV Service Delivery From 2007 to 2021, HAI implemented programs that expanded, improved, and integrated HIV testing, care, and treatment services into Côte d’Ivoire’s national health system. With over a decade of experience as a clinical implementing...
Poverty & Gender-based Violence: Upstream HIV Interventions
Poverty & Gender-based Violence: Upstream HIV Interventions HAI’s OVC-plus project took aim at two social determinants of HIV infection in Côte d’Ivoire: poverty and gender-based violence. Economic and social vulnerabilities are both by-products and...
Building Local NGO Capacity
Local NGO Collaboration In addition to our public sector partnership model, HAI has always worked closely with local NGOs that represent community priorities and help expand the health system’s reach beyond the clinic. A core constituency of public sector...
Mental Health Screening & Treatment to Improve HIV Outcomes
HAI is piloting the use of the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) for mental health screening within HIV-positive populations to improve HIV treatment outcomes.
Identifying Gaps in HIV Treatment Retention for Pregnant Mozambicans under B+
Identifying Gaps in HIV Treatment Retention for Pregnant Mozambicans under B+ HAI’s Option B+ study showed low-cost inputs and systems adjustments can meaningfully improve retention of HIV-positive mothers in antiretroviral treatment (ART), especially when combined...
TB Activistas: Improving Tuberculosis Screening, Diagnosis, and Linkages to Care
TB Activistas: Improving Tuberculosis Screening, Diagnosis, and Linkages to Care HAI helped build the case for bridging the community-to-clinic gap to increase TB case detection using community health workers, or activistas as they’re known in Mozambique. In countries...
Liga Inan: Connecting Mothers
Liga Inan: Connecting Mothers The Liga Inan program has scaled up mother-to-midwife connections across all 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste, substantially increasing the number of women who seek skilled care in a health facility before, during, and after childbirth....
Prontu: Emergency Obstretric & Newborn Care Training
Prontu: Emergency Obstetric & Newborn Care Training HAI collaborated with PRONTO International and Timor-Leste’s National Institute of Health and Ministry of Health to integrate on-site simulation trainings into the National Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care...
Peer Support Groups
One strategy HAI embraces to build community-to-clinic linkages is through peer support groups—a cost-effective, evidence-based practice that has been shown to improve health behaviors and attitudes across the health care spectrum.