Health Systems Strengthening and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Fund human resources for health, quality improvement and other health system strengthening activities in countries hit hardest by HIV/AIDS through the President??s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Objectives include: (1) Training and technical assistance to build and strengthen care programs and health systems, so that affected countries can maintain programs over time and deliver quality HIV/AIDS care; build infrastructures such as clinic and community-led monitoring, health information systems, and medical and nursing education. (2) Enhance models of medical, nursing and midwifery education. (3) Develop partnerships between experts in the U.S. and people and institutions overseas to build skills and prepare host countries so that they may better manage their own programs over the long term. Health Systems Strengthening Programs: (1) Quality Improvement Capacity for Impact…