The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria programme
Right to Care (RTC) was a primary recipient for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) grant. Entitled ‘Investing for impact against Tuberculosis and HIV’, this programme began in April 2016 and closed out in March 2019.
The programme had four main objectives:
The key focus of the programme was on:
Right to Care implemented the Global Fund programme in the:
Our implementing partners
- ANOVA Health Institute
- Social Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa (SHE)
- LGBTI Centre
- Free State Rainbow Seeds (FSRS)
- Lifeline Northern Cape
- ANOVA Health Institute
- TBHIV Care
- Foundation for Professional Development (FPD)
- Starfish Greathearts Foundation
- South African Catholic Bishop’s Conference (SACBC)
- Mosamaria AIDS Ministry
- AgriAID
- AgriWellness
- Right to Care
Our external service providers
Targeted interventions to reach key populations
We created targeted interventions to make sure we reached the right people and had impact:
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Prevention programmes for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (TG) people
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· Targeted community-based outreach and hotspot outreach · Clinical care (HIV, TB and STI screening and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) provision) · Targeted information, education and communication material and condom and lubricant distribution · Establishment of MSM and TG competent health care facilities; and · Clinical and psychosocial training (for both health and non-healthcare workers) |
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Prevention programmes for people who inject drugs (PWID) and their partners
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· Harm reduction intervention · Needle and syringe exchange · Medical assistance therapy (primarily opioid substitution therapy) · Clinical care (HIV, TB and STI screening) and · Community interventions and linkage to care |
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Prevention, care and support programmes for people living with HIV (PLHIV)
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· Facility and community-based treatment adherence support (for both HIV and non-communicable diseases) · Advanced patient management and care provision for patients failing on treatment · Mobile-health strategies to improve treatment adherence and retention in care · Use of automated Pharmacy Dispensing Units (PDUs) · Linkages with Centralised Chronic Medicines Dispensing and Distribution interventions implemented primarily by Right ePharmacy |
