HIV PULSE
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HIV PULSE, a mobile app for reporting on HIV services by private healthcare providers in India. About the Project: Svetana: Private Sector Expansion for Prevention of Parent To Child Transmission To achieve the goal of elimination of new HIV infections among children, India has adopted WHO guidelines for preventing Parent to Child Transmission (PPTCT). Project Śvetana is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative to scale-up Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV (PPTCT) services in private health sector supported by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). The initiative builds on SAATHII’s prior experience engaging the private sector in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka with support of EGPAF and MAC/AIDS. According to National Family Health Survey-3, the private medical sector remains the primary source of health care for 70% of households in urban areas and 63% of households in rural areas. Several reasons are cited for relying on private rather than public sector; the main reason is high quality of care provided in the public sector. Out of an estimated 27 million pregnancies in a year, 4.26 million delivered in private sector and 12.17 million women delivered in public sector. As the majority of PPTCT services are in the public health sector and a significant proportion of institutional deliveries takes place in the country's private health sector, Project Śvetana fills the critical gap of reaching pregnant women availing maternity services in the private sector. ...
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