Chido Dziva Chikwari

TL;DR: In implementing HTC strategies, consideration must be given to scalability and cost-effectiveness and HTC approaches must be coupled with linkage to appropriate care and prevention services.

TL;DR: The research emphasises the importance of listening to community perspectives and accounting for context-specific realities to design locally appropriate and effective responses to COVID-19 communities require support with basic needs and reliable information to enable them to follow prevention measures Healthcare workers urgently need personal 3 protective equipment.

TL;DR: This study shows that existing criteria for designing successful CHW programmes are useful for maximizing effectiveness, but challenges remain for ensuring long-term sustainability of ‘task shifting’ strategies.

TL;DR: Caregiving arrangements and intra-familial experience of HIV and its relationship to HIV disclosure to older children and adolescents in Zimbabwe, and high non-disclosure rates were present as well as a lack of discussion about HIV within the family.

TL;DR: For community support programmes to be effective, stigma-related resistance should be addressed from the outset, including CHWs’ own concerns regarding HIV stigma.