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Table 1 Interventions evaluated under the 3DE pilot

From: Generating demand for and use of evaluation evidence in government health ministries: lessons from a pilot programme in Uganda and Zambia

Intervention name

Country

Description

Mama kits

Zambia

This intervention provided non-monetary ‘mama kits’ to pregnant mothers conditional on delivering at a health facility. The objective of the intervention was to increase facility delivery rates, and ultimately maternal and newborn health outcomes in Zambia

Community-fixed point implementation of insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs)

Zambia

The intervention distributed ITNs to community members using a ‘fixed point’ approach, in which bed-nets were given out at a particular place in the community rather than by volunteers visiting households door-to-door to deliver and hang-up nets; the objective of the evaluation was to understand how this approach compared to the door-to-door method in terms of rates of retention and use of bed-nets, and cost-effectiveness

Health facility reinforcement and early infant diagnosis (EID) and immunisation service integration on HIV testing and immunisation services

Zambia

The objectives of the programme were to improve the identification of HIV-positive mothers and infants in Zambia, in order to ultimately improve the timeliness of treatment and health outcomes It strengthened supplies of HIV testing kits, reinforced guidelines around early-infant diagnosis and HIV-testing for mothers to health service providers, and also included a component that sought to integrate EID testing services with scheduled 6-week immunisation visits for infants

Decongestion of busy anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinics

Zambia

The objective of the intervention was to improve ART service efficiency, and ultimately the supply of ART; it involved providing resources to improve the availability of stocks at health facilities, emphasising the application of existing guidelines around ART refills, and providing a designated person to work in targeted facilities to ensure that protocols are correctly observed

Family clinic days

Uganda

The intervention provided family-centred care and health education to HIV-positive adolescents and children and their families, through a designated clinic day; during these, clinics delivered specialised health education and psychosocial support to patients and caregivers; the main objectives were to improve the retention of HIV-positive paediatric and adolescent patients in care