“Clinical Mentoring and Community Engagement to Improve Health Outcomes”
Grantee Institution:
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Team Leaders:
- Jeffrey S.A. Stringer, M.D.
Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia - Namwinga Chintu, M.D.
Deputy Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Project Summary:
The PHIT Partnership focuses on three rural districts in the Lusaka Province of Zambia. This approach begins with a simple and inescapable fact: good health outcomes are largely the result of good clinical care. A successful HIV/AIDS program has already transformed expectations through clinical mentoring, data collection, and monitoring. This model, applied to the delivery of integrated primary care, will reverse the patterns of the past 20 years in Chongwe, Kafue, and Luangwa districts and produce measurable improvements in Millennium Development Goal health indicators. The primary clinical intervention is district-based clinical quality improvement teams. The primary community intervention is patient follow-up and household assessments by community health workers. Clinic and community health workers will have clear protocols and receive ongoing mentoring, measuring, and performance reviews. The sequential roll-out from facility to facility will facilitate a rigorous outcomes evaluation through the use of multi-round community surveys.
Zambia AIDS-related Tuberculosis (ZAMBART) project, information, education and communication (IEC) Session