Global Health Initiative

Date of Operation: 2008 – 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: World Food Program

Other Implementing Partner(s): FHI 360, Population Service International, Pro PRIDE, Organization for Social Services for AIDS, Mekdim, Marie Stopes International, Mekele OSSA, Save Your Generation Tigray (SYGA), Mekele Mums for Mums, Ethiopia Kalehiwot Church, and Adama Medan Acts Project

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Assist food insecure HIV/AIDS infected and affected households to develop their capacities to cope with the impacts of HIV/AIDS through the provision of food and nutrition assistance

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2015 Primary

Implementing Partner: Pact

Other Implementing Partner(s): FHI 360, ChildFund International (CFI), and numerous local NGOs

Regions of Operation: Nationwide in urban and semi-urban areas

Goal:

Improve well-being by strengthening care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children and their families or caretakers by strengthening systems and structures to deliver quality essential services and increase resiliency.

Objectives:

Date of Operation: 2011 - 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: World Vision International

Other Implementing Partner(s): Network of Networks of HIV-Positives (NEP+), Tulane University, African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA)

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia and improve the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV), their families, and the community through sustainable, comprehensive, and coordinated evidence-based interventions

Objectives:

• Provide a preventive care package to PLHIV to meet their care needs and promote adherence to and uptake of clinical services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2008 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: African Network for Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Build capacity at primary health care level for providing quality comprehensive pediatric HIV treatment, care and support of HIV services.

Objectives:

• Strengthen technical capacity for improved delivery of pediatric HIV services at health center level through training of service providers
• Promote and support application of skills for delivery of quality and comprehensive pediatric HIV services through support supervision and clinical mentoring
• Facilitate decentralized pediatric HIV service delivery with appropriate resource materials
• Strengthen linkages between facility-based pediatric HIV and orphans and vulnerable children services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Dire Dawa, Harari, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Ensure improved nutrition clinical and functional outcomes among HIV positive individuals, pregnant and postpartum women, and highly vulnerable children in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

• Therapeutic and supplementary at health facility (hospital, health center) level
• Procure and distribute ready-to-use therapeutic foods
• Provide nutritional counseling and education

Description:

Date of Operation: 2012 – 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Other Implementing Partner(s): Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH), DAI, Helen Keller International (HKI), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Improve the quality, reach and impact of HIV services.

Project Objectives:

• Strengthen the quality and reach of nutrition care services for people living with HIV.
• Anti-retroviral treatment and care services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV)

Other Implementing Partners: World Health Organization (WHO), Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve case detection and treatment success rates of TB in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

• Assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in scaling up of drug management of Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)
• Strengthen laboratory networking
• Assist the GoE in the coordination of the TB control program

Description:

TB CARE I assists the GoE in addressing the country’s TB-specific challenges, including extremely low case detection, the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, and TB/HIV co-infection. To address these challenges, TB CARE I provides support on a national level in four major technical areas:

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Other Implementing Partners: PATH, Alert, and the Kenya Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (KAPTLD)

Regions of Operation: Amhara and Oromia

Goal:

Assist local health offices in prevention and control of TB to reduce mortality and morbidity due to TB

Project Objectives:

• Expand and enhance Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS)
• Assist selected zones in reaching case detection of 70% and exceed treatment success rate of 85%
• Assist local health offices in establishing a courier system to transport samples of suspected Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB cases to culture centers and deliver reports back to patients

Description:

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Increase access to and utilization of long-acting and permanent family planning methods.

Project Objectives:

• Improve monitoring and evaluation of family planning programming
• Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation capacity of health facilities at regional, zonal and woreda levels so they can do the same at lower levels
• Monitor and evaluate Implanon insertion training and program implementation undertaken by implementing partners (Integrated Family Health Program, EngenderHealth, Ipas Ethiopia, Marie Stopes International - Ethiopia)

Description:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Jhpiego

Other Implementing Partners: Save the Children, Johns Hopkins University, and John Snow, Inc.

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

To curb maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives: