Accessible Quality Healthcare (AQH)

• Patients with NCDs to be treated according to new models of care in PHC as primary beneficiaries
• PHC service providers, family doctors and nurses, and health managers to benefit from all education and training activities as secondary beneficiaries
• Respective family members and caretakers of NCD patients, involved through health education and promotion activities as indirect beneficiaries
• With the intended national scale up, AQH will be reaching an estimated total of 570’790 beneficiaries, of which 283’956 direct beneficiaries

Outcome 1: PHC providers deliver quality services for NCDs to informed citizens.

Outcome 2: Health managers ensure delivery of quality PHC services that respond to community needs.

Outcome 3: The population improves its health literacy and demands better access to high quality care.

Risultati principali attesi:  

Key outputs of the planned phase:

• Service packages for NCDs are consolidated in PHC provision
• Quality management principles are embedded in PHC provision
• National actors have strengthened capacities to technically guide, manage and implement HE/HP for NCDs
• Community feedback informs the delivery of PHC services

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

• The capacity of PHC institutions to manage NCD patients has improved. A new care model, combining curative and preventive approaches was successfully introduced in 20 partner municipalities. Within this framework, a total of 50’028 (in %, 51f/49m) patients with hypertension, diabetes and/or asthma received individual motivational counselling
• Quality management systems have been introduced along strengthening of managerial capacities through comprehensive management training programmes, targeting 407 senior PHC managers
• Health services have become more patient-centered and more open to include patient representatives in decision-making. Now included in legislation, patient feedback mechanisms, i.e., Patient Councils are being extended in all municipalities
• The project succeeded in raising the profile of NCDs on the national health agenda and there is overall a high level of interest and commitment among the stakeholders that have a mandate to improve NCD prevention, control and management.

• SDC Integrated Health Services project
• Donor initiatives: WHO, WB, Lux Dev, UNICEF