Primary Health and Empowerment of Women and Girls female student WE-ACTx’s model of primary health care service delivery is guided by a commitment to local women’s empowerment, decentralized health service delivery through the public sector, program planning based on community-identified needs, and a family-centered model of health care and support service delivery.
Our HIV treatment and other clinical care services are wrapped around primary care and other support services organized through deep community outreach via local grassroots partner associations. Currently WE-ACTx works with 24 local partner associations in various capacities, providing training and support to association members, and collaborating in the implementation of a variety of prevention and education & support services for community members, i.e. mobile counseling and testing services (VCT), trauma counseling for both women and children who receive testing services or have been subject to sexual violence, home visits by nurses and peer advocates to assist children and parents with medical follow-up, including nutritional needs and mental health issues, assistance with design and implementation of income-generating activities for association members, training in rights and legal self-advocacy for HIV+ persons, and support for children’s education and nutritional needs.
Our vision is to progressively deepen community-level skills and capacity-building for HIV infected and affected women and their families in providing gender sensitive health and social support services to vulnerable women, children, and families, and to efficiently link those needing HIV treatment and clinical care immediately into high quality clinical services, and support services which we know to support adherence to treatment regimes.
Women's Equity in Access to Care & Treatment