Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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New Start Zimbabwe

last updated Sep 27, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Population Services International (PSI)
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1999
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Out-of-pocket payments
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government
Funders: 
DFID, USAID

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
100<
Number of Clients Served: 
378,053 clients HIV tested and counselled in 2011
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
40
Other Measures of Scale: 
An average of 3,000 HIV positive clients have accessed point of care CD4 cell count services.
Summary: 

NewStart is an HIV testing and counseling franchise started in Zimbabwe in 1999 in support of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Testing and Counseling Program.

Key program components: 

The franchise is managed by professional counselors who have another professional background such as nursing, teaching or social sciences. To improve access to care, treatment and support for people living with HIV, PSI has introduced TB screening using a standard questionnaire and FP counseling.

Currently, the program offers such treatments as oral contraception, male condoms, female condoms, injectables, implants, EC, male circumcision, HCT, LLINs, TB testing and treatment, diarrheal disease treatment, water purification, and lab testing. In 2011, the program hopes to add the integration of cervical cancer screening, gender-based violence counseling, forensic examination of rape victims Integration of LTFP (implants and IUD).

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