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Texas Children's Global Health HIV Resources

We have created various clinical protocols and treatment plans that can be made available upon request. Our HIV-specific resources include our 2010 HIV curriculum, adherence curriculum, ARV forecasting tool, and the BIPAI approach toolkit. Please email globalhealth@texaschildrens.org for more information.

Our Little Soldiers

Across cultures storytelling is a vehicle used to both educate and entertain. To educate children living with HIV we often employ storytelling. Over time we have found that explaining HIV through a friendly narrative is best for getting the child to understand their condition and partake in our prescribed treatment. Little Soldiers familiarizes children with the key facts about HIV and the treatment of HIV. When children read it at home, it will further illustrate why taking their medications is important and support medication adherence. The book will help HIV positive children discuss and relate to their illness at home with their family and loved ones with colorful illustrations and an engaging storyline.

English: Cover | Book | Adherence Cards

Botswana: Cover | Book

Eswatini: Cover | Book

Lesotho: Cover | Book

Malawi: Cover | Book

Tanzania: Cover | Book

Uganda: Cover | Book

Pill Count Adherence

Table to help calculate pill count adherence (Tanzania)

This document is a draft of a table pertaining to pill count adherence calculations in Mwanza,Tanzania. Developed by Sarah Evans and Neel Naik. © 2014 Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

Table to help calculate pill count adherence (Eswatini)

This document is a draft of a table pertaining to pill count adherence calculation developed in Eswatini. Created by Rachel Golin and CHAI volunteers. © 2014 Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

UNICEF’S HIV Programming in the Context of COVID-19: Building Back Better for Children, Adolescents and Women

One year ago, UNICEF released a Compendium of innovative approaches to HIV programming in Eastern and Southern Africa during COVID-19. A follow-up installment, Volume II, describes results achieved in the nine countries highlighted in Volume I, while also sharing experiences from an additional eight countries.  

This collective work illustrates how countries are proactively mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by continuously developing the knowledge and architecture of the HIV response, whilst scaling up efforts to achieve global HIV goals. The publication delves into adaptations and innovations that have had a positive impact beyond sustaining services during the pandemic, and points to exciting opportunities to build back better with more flexible and resilient systems.

The publications feature Botswana Baylor Trust, Baylor Foundation Eswatini, and Baylor Foundation Tanzania.

Volume I | Volume II

This report shares the promising practices and lessons learned from the Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative. It was informed by a call for inputs, issued to more than 100 implementing partners in nine countries. The report is for local, national, regional, and global stakeholders interested in the design, implementation, funding, and sustainability of HIV care and treatment for children. It can be used in the countries involved in ACT and beyond.

The first version of the new BIPAI Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework was created in December 2007. It had two principal functions: 1) provision of ongoing M&E data for internal use in terms of program management and quality improvement and 2) provision of customized data as required by our funders and stakeholders. It was focused primarily on monitoring and evaluation of operational excellence, related to the six strategic objectives of the organization.

Since the implementation of the first framework, we have been charting progress on these six strategic objectives on a monthly or quarterly basis. The data generated through regular monitoring have permitted ongoing quality improvement in services and also form the basis for comprehensive evaluations taking place across the network on an annual basis. In January 2009, it was decided that BIPAI should implement a 360° evaluation of the organization’s activities, based on the “Balanced Score Card” (BSC) approach. The BSC provides evaluation of the network activities according to four perspectives: partner satisfaction, operational excellence, employee and organizational development and financial health. As such it gives a more balanced view of the network’s progress than was possible using the original M&E framework. The balanced score cards are created and updated according to a strategic planning process.

In September 2008, BIPAI published a toolkit entitled "Implementing Care and Treatment for Children with HIV/AIDS in Resource-Limited Settings." In keeping with the urgent need to expand care and treatment for children with HIV/AIDS highlighted in the recent UNICEF report "Children and AIDS, Second Stocktaking report." 

The purpose of that toolkit was to provide a practical step-by-step guide for any group in how to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and revise programs specifically addressing the needs of children and their families, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and living in resource-limited settings. Included in the toolkit there was guidance on how to decentralize such efforts to outreach or rural areas of resource-limited countries. BIPAI now presents an additional "Outreach Toolkit" providing a number of tools to assist decentralization of HIV/AIDS services. In many resource-limited countries, particularly in Africa, there is a serious shortage of manpower, most notably of physicians or at least of physicians trained and experienced in the care and treatment of children with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, the toolkit also concentrates on methods to train and mentor health care professionals at outreach or primary health care sites.

In September 2008, BIPAI published a toolkit entitled "Implementing Care and Treatment for Children with HIV/AIDS in Resource-Limited Settings." In keeping with the urgent need to expand care and treatment for children with HIV/AIDS highlighted in the recent UNICEF report "Children and AIDS, Second Stocktaking report." 

The purpose of that toolkit was to provide a practical step-by-step guide for any group in how to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and revise programs specifically addressing the needs of children and their families, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and living in resource-limited settings. Included in the toolkit there was guidance on how to decentralize such efforts to outreach or rural areas of resource-limited countries. BIPAI now presents an additional "Outreach Toolkit" providing a number of tools to assist decentralization of HIV/AIDS services. In many resource-limited countries, particularly in Africa, there is a serious shortage of manpower, most notably of physicians or at least of physicians trained and experienced in the care and treatment of children with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, the toolkit also concentrates on methods to train and mentor health care professionals at outreach or primary health care sites.

The Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange portal (SHARE) is a unique regional hub, connecting people to resources, peers, organizations, and free online learning and collaboration tools designed to equip them to share experiences and knowledge to better respond to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. SHARE addresses the need for health information and knowledge management related to HIV and AIDS in the region of the world with the highest HIV prevalence rate.

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