Description/Activities: Training for primary counselors on interpersonal communication, counseling, gender norms, and stigma; intensive monitoring of index testing results in weekly dashboard and mentoring visits to high volume sites; Holiday logbook to pre-book contacts who live in other countries but visit during holidays; offering index testing to virally unsuppressed ART clients; strengthened IPV screening (3% documented risk); harmonized index testing register for facility and community index; active collaboration with community index testing IPs for tracking elicited contacts outside facilities; weekly line listing and analysis of HTS_POS who have not been initiated
What Makes the Intervention Unique/Different: a holistic approach to index testing; innovative interventions such as the “Holiday Book”; the increased focus on fidelity has made this intervention successful
Impact Data: Index testing yield trends among males increased from 18% to as high as 34% even during an economic and health sector crisis in FY19; there was significant improvement in index testing quality during FY19
Reference/Website: COP20 Zimbabwe Opening Plenary Slides