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Otiso L, McCollum R, Mireku M, et al. Decentralising and integrating HIV services in community-based health systems: a qualitative study of perceptions at macro, meso and micro levels of the health system. BMJ Glob Health. 2017;2(1):e000107doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107.
Otiso, L., McCollum, R., Mireku, M., Karuga, R., de Koning, K., & Taegtmeyer, M. (2017). Decentralising and integrating HIV services in community-based health systems: a qualitative study of perceptions at macro, meso and micro levels of the health system. BMJ global health, 2(1), e000107. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107
Otiso, Lilian, et al. "Decentralising and integrating HIV services in community-based health systems: a qualitative study of perceptions at macro, meso and micro levels of the health system." BMJ global health vol. 2,1 (2017): e000107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107
Otiso L, McCollum R, Mireku M, Karuga R, de Koning K, Taegtmeyer M. Decentralising and integrating HIV services in community-based health systems: a qualitative study of perceptions at macro, meso and micro levels of the health system. BMJ Glob Health. 2017 Jan 20;2(1):e000107. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28588995; PMCID: PMC5321381.
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BMJ Glob Health. 2017 Jan 20;2(1):e000107. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107. eCollection 2017.

Decentralising and integrating HIV services in community-based health systems: a qualitative study of perceptions at macro, meso and micro levels of the health system.

BMJ global health

Lilian Otiso, Rosalind McCollum, Maryline Mireku, Robinson Karuga, Korrie de Koning, Miriam Taegtmeyer

Affiliations

  1. LVCT Health, Nairobi, Kenya.
  2. Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
  3. Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 28588995 PMCID: PMC5321381 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000107

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: HIV services at the community level in Kenya are currently delivered largely through vertical programmes. The funding for these programmes is declining at the same time as the tasks of delivering HIV services are being shifted to the community. While integrating HIV into existing community health services creates a platform for increasing coverage, normalising HIV and making services more sustainable in high-prevalence settings, little is known about the feasibility of moving to a more integrated approach or about how acceptable such a move would be to the affected parties.

METHODS: We used qualitative methods to explore perceptions of integrating HIV services in two counties in Kenya, interviewing national and county policymakers, county-level implementers and community-level actors. Data were recorded digitally, translated, transcribed and coded in NVivo10 prior to a framework analysis.

RESULTS: We found that a range of HIV-related roles such as counselling, testing, linkage, adherence support and home-based care were already being performed in the community in an ad hoc manner. However, respondents expressed a desire for a more coordinated approach and for decentralising the integration of HIV services to the community level as parallel programming had resulted in gaps in HIV service and planning. In particular, integrating home-based testing and counselling within government community health structures was considered timely.

CONCLUSIONS: Integration can normalise HIV testing in Kenyan communities, integrate lay counsellors into the health system and address community desires for a household-led approach.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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