21/11/2024
Zim-TTECH values community health, according to the National Community Health Strategy 2020 โ 2025, community health provides basic health services to rural and urban communities by preventing and treating disease, creating awareness, and transferring knowledge to the people. This empowers communities to take an active role in health and health-related issues and to contribute effectively to the countryโs development agenda. Community health promotes active participation in the planning, delivery, utilisation, and ownership of health services. Community health services are predominately delivered through Community health workers (CHWs) who are women and men that deliver a wide range of services at household level and act as the bridge between the formal health system and communities.
With the support from The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), through CDC, Zim-TTECH is collaborating with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to conduct district-based Community Linkage Facilitators (CLF)โs COP 24 inception meetings. The main aim of the meetings is to meet all contracted CLFs to share and discuss program performance status and expectations as well as build their capacity on tracking clients who default on ART, distribution of HIV self-testing kits, and linking clients to HIV services at health facilities.
International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) National AIDS Council of Zimbabwe