{"id":954,"date":"2024-04-18T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41.89.92.178\/?p=954"},"modified":"2024-06-25T07:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T07:20:58","slug":"kenya-hosts-the-cquin-multi-country-conference-on-integration-of-non-hiv-services-into-hiv-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Hosts the CQUIN Multi-Country Conference on Integration of Non-HIV Services into HIV Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rodah Nisa Masibo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2024 CQUIN multi-country conference was held in Kenya on 14th to 18th April 2024. The ministry of Health in collaboration with ICAP at Columbia University Coverage, Quality and Impact Network (CQUIN) hosted the 4-day conference on integrating non-HIV Services into HIV Programs themed\u00a0<em>\u2018Delivering Person-Centred Care for People Living with HIV\u2019<\/em>\u00a0in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Guest, representing the Ministry of Health-Kenya, Dr. Rose Wafula, who is the Head of Division of National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP), highlighted the need of integration of health care services. \u201cWhile People Living with HIV can now live longer due to wide coverage of HIV care and treatment programs, there are key emergent issues that programs must be prepared to address integration, including Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rose further emphasized the need for collaboration for integration in HIV, SRH, MCH and NCD service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for integration to truly work, all stakeholders led by the Government must work together to break the \u2018silos\u2019 of programming and increase investments in primary care networks while leveraging on the Ministry of Health Universal Health Coverage agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference brought together over 260 participants from 21 Countries drawn from the Ministries of Health departments (HIV, MCH\/SRH and NCD departments), PEPFAR agencies, development and implementing partners, and national networks of people living with HIV among others.<\/p>\n<p>It provided ground to share best practices and innovative approaches for integrated service delivery; a significant step forward in Kenya\u2019s efforts to combat HIV\/AIDS and ensure the well-being of its citizens, while also contributing to global efforts to control the HIV epidermic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-955\" src=\"http:\/\/41.89.92.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-3-1-371x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"283\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/41.89.92.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-451x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-451x400.jpeg 451w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-scaled-510x452.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-903x800.jpeg 903w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-768x681.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-1536x1361.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-2-2048x1815.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/41.89.92.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-scaled-510x340.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-958\" src=\"http:\/\/41.89.92.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-scaled-510x340.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rodah Nisa Masibo The 2024 CQUIN multi-country conference was held in Kenya on 14th to 18th April 2024. The ministry of Health in collaboration with ICAP at Columbia University Coverage, Quality and Impact Network (CQUIN) hosted the 4-day conference on integrating non-HIV Services into HIV Programs themed\u00a0\u2018Delivering Person-Centred Care for People Living with HIV\u2019\u00a0in [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascop.or.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}