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Improving Patients Retention in HIV care through adherence to scheduled appointments at St. Anthony’s Hospital, Eastern Uganda.

Region and Country:

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method:
Strategies used by facilities to improve iron and folate supplement availability for Antenatal Care in Kenya. What happens when national systems fail to meet client needs?

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Antenatal care | Country ownership | Employee Engagement | Equipment/supplies | Financial management | Maternal nutrition | Micronutrient supplementation | Sustainability

Improvement Method: Client engagement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Supervision | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Waste Management in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Waste management

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Occupational Safety in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Community health workers

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Injection Safety in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention | Medical injection safety

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
The Potential to Save Newborn Lives in Rural communities of Zambia: Results of a Randomised Control Study in Mpongwe and Chongwe, Zambia.

Region and Country: Zambia

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES ON MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION IN 16 AIDSRelief PARTNER FACILITIES: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Nigeria

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Grace Children's Hospital - TB Screening

Region and Country: Haiti

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | Employee Engagement | HIV-TB | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Organization of work | Building Capacity in Improvement
A QI Team Approach to Scale Up Provision of TB Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) at Outapi ART Clinic

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Documentation/data collection | HIV-TB | Isoniazid preventive therapy

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Spread and scale-up | Building Capacity in Improvement
Toward “real time” HIV/STI diagnosis in the HIV/AIDS Program of Mexico City

Region and Country: Mexico

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving access to HIV testing and other basic health services in rural areas of Malawi through mobile clinics

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Malawi

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Spread and scale-up
Reducing the waiting time for HIV/AIDS patients attending Mengo Hospital HIV clinic, an urban hospital in Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Program design

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Building Capacity in Improvement | Institutionalizing Health Care Improvement
Facilitating Active Lab Sample Transport (FAST) System Using Public Mini-Buses – Report of a Pilot Program in Swaziland

Region and Country: Swaziland

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Soroti District Improvement Report

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV/AIDS | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Supervision | Training
Motorbike ambulance -Saving pregnant mothers lives by saving delay in transfer when urgent interevention is needed

Region and Country: Ethiopia

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF TB ASSESSMENT IN HIV/AIDS CARE AT BUSESA HC IV

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: TB-HIV | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Reminders and job aids
The Story of establishing an HIV/AIDS clinic in Tiriri HC IV, Soroti district in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement collaboratives
Improving quality of HIV care in a staff limited rural health center in Namutumba District Eastern Uganda.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: TB-HIV

Improvement Method: Client engagement
Improvement of infection prevention standards compliance at Tikur Anbessa Hospital- a quality improvement project

Region and Country: Ethiopia

Improvement Topic: Infection control and prevention

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement | Employee engagement | Improvement collaboratives | Improvement models/methodologies | Organization of work | Performance-based incentives
HEALTH CARE ON GIRL CHILD - INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Orphans and vulnerable children

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Integrating Palliative care in HIV chronic care clinic at Wabulungu HC III, Mayuge District

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic:

Improvement Method: Organization of work
Community driven initiatives for quality care of OVC

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Coordination of OVC care | Developing OVC service standards

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
A comprehensive approach for Quality Improvement of TB laboratory service in resource-limited settings

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV laboratory services | HIV-TB | TB case finding and diagnosis | TB-HIV | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Training | Analytical Tools for Improvement | Building Capacity in Improvement
Lessons in providing quality assurance for HIV rapid testing in Malawi

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Malawi

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV laboratory services | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Audit and feedback
RETENTION COLLABRATIVE IN HIV/AIDS CLIENTS

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Improving TB assessment among HIV/AIDS patients attending Mengo Hospital, an urban hospital in Uganda

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV-TB

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement models/methodologies | Institutionalization | Analytical Tools for Improvement
ENROLLMENT OF HIV POSITIVE CLIENTS IN TO CHRONIC CARE AT NAMAWANGA HCIII

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
HIV/ AIDS improvement at Nyenga clinic

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan

Improvement Topic: HIV infection prevention/universal precautions

Improvement Method: Training
Meeting multiple needs of vulnerable children in Kenya

Region and Country: Kenya

Improvement Topic: Orphans and vulnerable children

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving adherence of HIV/AIDS patients to ARVs in Tororo General Hospital, Eastern Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Improvement collaboratives
REDUCING CLENTS' CLINIC VISIT TIME AT NYENGA MOBILE HIV/AIDS CLINIC IN UGANDA

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: The Science of Improvement
Improving the quality of care for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS by introducing Psychosocial Support services at Beatrice Road Infectious Disease Hospital (BRIDH) Opportunistic Infections and Antiretroviral Therapy (OI/ART) Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe

Region and Country: Zimbabwe

Improvement Topic: Adherence to treatment | Adolescent reproductive health | Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | Building QI capacity in OVC implementers | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Orphans and vulnerable children | OVC services | Reproductive Health | Task shifting | TB infection control | TB-HIV | Training | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
THE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT TEAM IN STRENGTHENING INTEGRATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE INTO CHRONIC CARE AND OTHER SERVICES IN MAYUGE DISTRICT, UGANDA

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Performance management | Supervision | Training

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies | Supervision | Training
Fight against Tuberculosis by School Students

Region and Country: Pakistan

Improvement Topic: Public-private mix | Social mobilization | TB case finding and diagnosis | Tuberculosis

Improvement Method: Performance-based incentives | Training
The Impact of Quality Improvement Initiatives in a mobile ART Program: Experience gained by Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization (Kitovu Mobile) Providing ART to People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) in South West Uganda.

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care
Daily diary analysis – An approach to strengthen information system at grass root level

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: Community health workers | Employee Engagement | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Supervision | Task shifting | Training

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Employee engagement | Supervision | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
PSYCOLOGICAL CARE IN NEUROCOGNITIVE DYSFUNTION RESULTING FROM HIV AIDS

Region and Country: Asia | India

Improvement Topic: HIV counseling and testing | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Client engagement | Training | Building Capacity in Improvement
Best improvememt reports from KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Building Capacity in Improvement
Improving Patients' Retention in HIV Care Through Adherence to Scheduled Appointments at Bukedea HC IV, Eastern Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Reducing prescription of Antimalarials to smear negative patients

Region and Country: Uganda

Improvement Topic: Malaria | Malaria diagnosis | Malaria treatment in children

Improvement Method:
Child Health Care Improvement Programme in Nkandla hospital

Region and Country: South Africa

Improvement Topic: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Improvement Method: Improvement models/methodologies
Reduction in length of stay of discharges from a Chilean Pediatric Unit.

Region and Country: South America | Chile

Improvement Topic: Employee Engagement | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Motivation/incentives | Performance management

Improvement Method: Employee engagement | Improvement models/methodologies | Supervision | Analytical Tools for Improvement
IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE IN RURAL HIV CLINICS THROUGH CLINICAL DATA AUDITS: EXPERIENCE FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA.

Region and Country: Nigeria

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | Pediatric HIV/AIDS | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Approaches to Improving Health Care | Audit and feedback
Maximizing Resources Where Resources are Limited: a Rural Health Facility's Efforts to Improve Storage of HIV Records in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Nutritional support

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Organization of work
Reducing pneumonia and diarrhea mortality of children under 5 in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras

Region and Country: Honduras

Improvement Topic: Community health workers | Diarrheal disease prevention and case management | Emergency treatment assessment and triage (ETAT) | Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) | Pneumonia case management | Supervision | Training

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives | Organization of work | Spread and scale-up | Standards and evidence-based guidelines | Training
Developing clear expectations and objectives for health workers focusing on MCH in Niger

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Niger

Improvement Topic: Active management of the third stage of labor | Human Resources/Workforce Development | Maternal, Newborn and Child Health | Performance management

Improvement Method: Improvement collaboratives
Care of the Caregivers in Namibia

Region and Country: Namibia

Improvement Topic: Social support for PLWHA | Stigma

Improvement Method: Supervision | Training
Integrating Family Planning into HIV Care/ART Services in Uganda

Region and Country: Africa, Sub Saharan | Uganda

Improvement Topic: FP-HIV integration | HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Reproductive Health

Improvement Method:
Decentralizing HIV care and TB screening in St. Petersburg, Russia

Region and Country: Russia

Improvement Topic: Antiretroviral therapy/ART/ARV | HIV-TB | HIV/AIDS basic care and support | Retention in care

Improvement Method: Organization of work

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