Tanzania’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has set ambitious goals for national expansion of HIV/AIDS treatment and seeks to expand ART services to 200 sites supporting a total of 100,000 patients on ARV treatment within the next several years.
The HIV/AIDS Twinning Center is supporting this rapid expansion through its Volunteer Healthcare Corps. With the goal of increasing the institutional and human resource capacity of HIV care and treatment centers, the Tanzania Preceptors Initiative places highly skilled professionals at PEPFAR-supported sites, where they serve as onsite technical experts.
Preceptors are placed at sites for a period ranging from three months to two years with the dual goals of increasing institutional capacity to deliver and expand quality HIV/AIDS treatment and care services and
increasing staff competencies in HIV-related treatment and care.
They mentor staff; assist with the provision of services as needed; and help with program expansion, quality control, and other support tasks beneficial to the host institution.
To date, the VHC has placed 11 volunteers in Tanzania. Current placements include HIV/AIDS trainer, HIV/AIDS stigma specialist, pediatric clinical preceptor, PMTCT specialist, clinical preceptor, and laboratory mentor.
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