Nomboniso Mntuyedwa

• HIV counselling and testing individuals for HIV
• Index case trailing
• Discussion of prevention of mother to child
• Discussion of the importance of adherence
• Ensuring clients who their partners tested positive get Prep
• Facilitate and assist DMOC’s of facility from the Anova trailer and club rooms as indicated
• Assist the pharmacy staff with the preparation
• Facilitating and reporting of DMOCs, return uncollected parcels in the trailer to pharmacy
• Recall clients who have missed medication/clinical visits in DMOC and link back to facility
• Assist in ROFT support services
• Assisted with back to care clients and offer index testing to ROFT, BTC clients
• Trace and recall facility HIV
• Update DMOC registers, CDU manifests and recalls registers daily
• Weekly and monthly collation of data and report to Anova Pharmacy manager and HTS Co-ordinator

• HTS (HIV Testing Services)

HTS services focus on providing HIV testing at facilities, communities, outside facilities promoting testing through health talks and social mobilization. They emphasize reaching hard to reach groups such as children adolescents offering index testing. Services include HIV Rapid tests, HIVSS and collaboration with CBS for awareness activities. Quality assurance, reporting challenges and raising awareness for PreP, TB and STI screening are key components of the service.

• Retention to care services:

Retention to care services focus on providing post-test counselling, adherence support and linking HIV-positive clients to ARV initiation. Tracing clients who missed appointments and blood monitoring visits is essential, along with offering supportive counselling referrals. The role involves facilitating chronic treatment and ROFT support clubs, assisting clients returning to care, and ensuring adherence to care standards and policies. Close collaboration with the CBS team for home visit tracing and addressing barriers to treatment is also key.

• Linkage to care:

The role involves assisting HIV patients with counseling, ensuring positive clients are linked to care and initiated on ARVs and keeping records of ARV initiation. It includes reporting challenges in the referral system, distributing IEC materials on HIV/TB and providing health education on ART adherence, viral load monitoring and TB screening. The duties also cover supporting activities in line with the 909090 strategy, completing linkage and tracing registers, conducting follow-ups and index contact tracing. Regular reporting on these activities is required.

• Reporting and Administration:

Maintains the records of clients offered HTS, tested positive and linked to care,following DOH and Anova tools and daily facility register entries. Adherence to facility reporting formats, attending Anova team meetings and submitting reports to relevant staff. Ensuring accurate data entry in registers, securing storage of client data additionally, identifying and engaging critical program stakeholders is part of the responsibility.

• Stakeholder engagement

Building strong working relationship with them

Regular feedback to the community coordinator on social dynamics affecting project activities. The position also involves collaborating with Tester community support partners and CBS, while managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the DOH and other partners.