Description of Session
USAID Boresha Afya is a five-year (2016 – 2021) USAID funded program implemented in three geographical zones by Jphiego (Lake and Western), Deloitte Consulting Ltd. (Southern), and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) (North and Central). The overall aim is to improve the quality and support of comprehensive services with bold, smart, targeted initiatives that concentrate on geographic regions with the highest need and potential to achieve wide coverage and improved outcomes. USAID Boresha Afya has created a dynamic, integrated platform for delivery of health services that emphasizes intensified coordination and collaboration between the government, health facilities and communities, towards achieving HIV epidemic control while integrating FP, TB, RMNCH, Malaria care, GBV and Nutrition through innovative integration approaches at all levels. To improve HIV diagnosis and treatment and achieve the country’s HIV treatment targets, USAID Boresha Afya developed a mobile-based referral and case management system linking community and facility-based providers. The program aims to strengthen existing systems by developing one tool for use across the continuum of care. The strategy focuses on strengthening the link between community and facility-based providers using Open Smart Registers Platform (OpenSRP). OpenSRP is an open-source software system designed for Ministries of Health to transition from paper registers to digital client/patient systems, to empower health providers to manage the health of their populations with decision-support and data monitoring in-line with WHO recommendations. OpenSRP modernizes the ubiquitous paper client registers and logbooks, enabling health workers to account for services and track the health of their patient population. The referral and case management system has been designed to improve the efficiency of health service delivery and data collection, facilitate the provision and exchange of patient information, and foster communications across health facilities and between community-based providers and their clients.
