The Ministry of Health with support from the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST), Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING), Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA III), the AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Strengthening the Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Response South West (STAR SW), and Strengthening the Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Response East Central (STAR EC), has been implementing the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival (PHFS) initiative since March 2013, when it was officially launched. The aim of this initiative is to ensure a well-nourished, healthy HIV-free baby, through implementation of eMTCT and nutrition interventions using the quality improvement approach. Among the objectives of this initiative was to generate best practices from implementing sites that can be scaled up to other health facilities in the same district and the country. phfs_data_quality_change_packagea4_oct2014.pdf

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