2024-04-24 21:55:23
Thanks to funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bmgf), Pepfar, UNAIDS and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition-West Africa (Itpc-Wa), an organization working to improve the lives of those affected by HIV, tuberculosis and their communities 94 people from regional networks, technical assistance providers and experts from around fifteen countries in Central and West Africa, who are fighting HIV-AIDS, are in Côte d’Ivoire for three days. Since 23 April 2024, they have participated in a regional workshop in Grand-Bassam on Community-Led Monitoring (Clm), a process where people who use health services take the initiative to identify and monitor issues that concern them regularly. Define indicators to track priority issues, collect and analyze data, and engage stakeholders to find solutions to identified issues.
He therefore welcomes Clm, which is an approach where the communities that use services decide to monitor the quality of said services through the collection and analysis of data. “For us, Clm remains one of the most important expressions of community leadership to strengthen our systems and especially in the fight once morest HIV,” he said.
Ahead of the completion of the 24-month project, Dr Nicole Shabani of Pepfar welcomed the initiative which gives people affected by health inequalities the opportunity to systematically monitor services, analyze the data they collect and conduct evidence-based advocacy to improve service delivery and create an enabling environment for their well-being.
“This workshop is therefore an opportunity to recognize the crucial importance of civil society in the implementation of Clm. We must therefore continue to support and strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations by recognizing their expertise and providing them with funds, etc. », she advises, on behalf of the director of Pepfar.
As for Innocent Liaison, President of the Board of Itpc-wa, he claimed that this meeting in Abidjan which brings together Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo , Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast mark the desire of all to empower people affected by health inequalities. Because Clm allows them to have perfect knowledge of the quality of the services dedicated to them.
It is for this reason that he welcomes the presence of all these countries whose exchange will lead to the improvement, harmonization, consolidation and sustainability of this approach in West and Central Africa.
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