Health Care Delivery Improvement

We improve primary health care services by setting realistic, achievable goals with local partners and working closely with national counterparts; setting appropriate norms and standards for clinic services and sites; providing associated clinic training and supportive supervision; and strengthening health care commodity forecasting, logistics, and supply chain and management information systems.

Good health care and service delivery are basic requirements for poverty alleviation and an increased quality of life. Working with our counterparts in government departments and private sector organisations, health service providers and in communities, Pazisma supports the delivery of sustainable and effective healthcare solutions.

Approximately 42 million people are living with HIV and AIDS in developing countries. The virus is a major threat to economic and social development. Countries with high prevalence rates experience strained health care resources as it requires expensive and on-going clinical and palliative treatment. In communities dependent on family and village units for support, HIV and AIDS undermines local production capacity.

Pazisma designs and implements programs to assist governments to build health care capacity through reform, training, education, procurement and facility upgrades, while, around the globe, the response to HIV and AIDS requires a comprehensive multi-sector approach that incorporates a range of public, private and non-government organisations. HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment requires appropriate and innovative interventions that deal with highly sensitive subjects relating to sexual activity, gender and illicit drug use. Our programs work to enable governments to implement responses to HIV and AIDS.

Pazisma has been implementing HIV and AIDS and Health activities in developing countries since the early 1990s. We work closely with partner governments to promote leadership and provide the legislative and funding framework for public, private and non-government organisations to respond to health needs.

A key element is establishing and developing national and local HIV and AIDS agencies to provide a range of critical services including: awareness raising, stigma reduction, access to counselling, pharmacological treatments, condom distribution and harm reduction policy development. Pazisma draws on its international network of health, academic, research and industry specialists and partner organisations to provide technical assistance in designing interventions and building local capacity in an appropriate and sustainable manner.