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Strengthening TB and AIDS Response – Eastern Region (STAR-E)

last updated Aug 17, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Management Sciences for Health(MSH)
Implementation Partner(s): 
Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA), Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), Resources for Policy Exchange (RPX), and Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH);Ministry of Health of Uganda
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government
Funders: 
USAID

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
30,966 people (201,967 females and 128,999 males) were tested for HIV and received results
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
106 health facilities
Summary: 

Strengthening TB and AIDS Response – Eastern Region (STAR-E) project expands HIV & AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities in Eastern Uganda through a family-centered approach which involves the facility, the community, and the family, in delivering care and treatment services to AIDS patients.

Program goals/rationale: 

  1. Strengthen decentralized HIV/TB service delivery system, with emphasis on health centers and community outreaches.

  2. Improve quality and efficiency of HIV/TB services within health facilities and community service organizations/ groups.

  3. Strengthen networks and referrals systems to improve access to, coverage of and utilization of HIV/TB services.

  4. Intensify demand generation activities for HIV/TB prevention, care and treatment service.

Key program components: 

STAR-E monitors and supports the planning, scheduling and application of the Lot Quality Assessment Survey (LQAS) methodology in districts. It supports aims to build projects and district capacities to capture data, analyze, disseminate, and use results to improve service performance. STAR-E LQAS also facilitates estimates of select indicators, from small supervision areas, to be aggregated and compiled for large area reporting and operations research.

In addition it supports the application of LQAS across the entire country covering seven social sectors: HIV/AIDS, TB, Child Survival, Family planning and Reproductive Health, Malaria, Nutrition, OVC (Orphans and vulnerable children) and Education. This is done at the national and district level, and amongst USAID funded implementing partners supporting social services.

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