CDC, through PEPFAR, supports the implementation of effective, efficient HIV programs that maximize health impact. This support contributes directly to saving the lives of men, women and children through high quality HIV treatment services and a comprehensive combination prevention strategy. Using a data-driven approach, this strategy is tailored to the unique characteristics of the local epidemic to boost health impact and help ensure the most effective, efficient use of resources.
The CDC Guyana office works with the MOH to build in-country capacity to conduct HIV surveillance and diagnosis, monitor HIV patients on treatment, and diagnose opportunistic and sexually transmitted infections. The objectives in each of these technical areas have evolved with the growing maturity of the program and now encompass a focus on building program sustainability and country leadership. For example, the prevention of mother-to-child program is now in a transition phase to the Government of Guyana with a high uptake of HIV counseling and testing services among pregnant women and HIV exposed babies.
CDC collaborates with partners supporting the Guyana National TB Control Program’s efforts to integrate HIV and TB care and treatment in the most populous regions of Guyana. CDC works to make the national blood supply safe by assisting the MoH in institutionalizing blood bank and transfusion practices in collaboration with the National Blood Transfusion Service, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guyana medical community. To help strengthen laboratory systems, CDC has been instrumental in developing the national and regional laboratory capacity to diagnose HIV and other infections and to monitor disease progression.
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