Initial implementation of PrEP in Zambia: health policy development and service delivery scale-up.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is highly effective, but not yet widely deployed in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe how Zambia developed PrEP health policy and then successfully implemented national PrEP service delivery.

Policy development

Zambia introduced PrEP as a key strategy for HIV prevention in 2016, and established a National PrEP Task Force to lead policy advocacy and development. The Task Force was composed of government representatives, regulatory agencies, international donors, implementation partners and civil society organisations. Following an implementation pilot, PrEP was rolled out nationally using risk-based criteria alongside a national HIV prevention campaign.

National scale-up

In the first year of implementa

SUBMITTER: Claassen CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273462 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature