Intervention name | Country | Description |
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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 |