Knowledge and Innovation

Started in 2016, this new series highlights the rapid program assessments and snap surveys done by the KMIA team based on data trends identified through SIE.

Title Month, Year of publication Description
Health knowledge, needs and commitments of young people (18-24 years) Jun 2023

BACKGROUND OF THE ZVATINODA! (WHAT WE WANT!) INTERVENTION PROJECT

Health services are often poorly designed to meet young people’s health needs. Yet young people are rarely offered opportunities to input into the improvement of such services, to communicate their needs, and to provide their suggestions and preferences of how to improve health services. 

The Zvatinoda (Shona dialect, ‘What we want’) study, which has run in Zimbabwe since 2020, aims to improve both the demand and the uptake of health services by young people (18-24 years). Through this study, young people have participated to co-design an intervention to meet this aim. 

A Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) was formed, consisting of eight young people who facilitated the co-design process and communication with the community. The level of engagement of the YAP went beyond what we had expected and asked of them. They have expressed their keen desire to communicate their health needs and preferences. 

The aim of Zvatinoda short impact video is to facilitate the YAP to communicate their health needs and preferences, and to engage target audiences around its messages and promoting an increase in demand and uptake of sexual and reproductive health services by young people in Zimbabwe.

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HIV and Mental Health Policy Brief Dec 2019

In March 2019, OPHID conducted a scoping of mental health services within HIV care settings in 24 Districts supported by its Families and Communities for Elimination of HIV (FACE-HIV) Program. This brief describes the scoping findings and the implications of these findings in the context of ongoing efforts to strengthen mental health services in Zimbabwe.

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The OPHID Mbereko Model"Keeping Mothers and Babies Alive": Jan 2018

This report highlights lessons from OPHID’s Mbereko Model, an innovative intervention to increase community access to integrated Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services. 

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Tackling the first two 90s Jul 2016

Rapid Assessment of facility linkages between HIV testing and treatment in Mutare and Makoni Districts, Manicaland Province.

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Exploring bottlenecks to ART initiation Jun 2016

An inventory of CD4 machine access and functionality in 5 Provinces of Zimbabwe.

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Viral Load Monitoring and the last 90 Jun 2016

An inventory of facility and laboratory capacity and needs for Viral Load monitoring.

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