Tackling Global Public Health Challenges by Building Stronger Health Systems
AIHA provides needs-based technical assistance that helps countries strengthen their health systems from the ground up to expand access to quality care.
Explore AIHA’s Current Focus Areas
AIHA’s technical assistance model is both flexible and dynamic, so it can be readily adapted and utilized to build sustainable capacity in virtually any focus area or health discipline.
Our partnerships and projects are designed in close collaboration with all key stakeholders to ensure they effectively advance each nation’s health systems strengthening and human resources for health strategies.
Global Disease Control & Prevention
Projects that tackle communicable diseases such as HIV and TB, vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer on a global scale.
Examples include our Targeted Programmatic Support Project in the Philippines and the Dr. Joseph R. Masci Legacy Project, supporting HIV/AIDS care and treatment, infection control, and pandemic preparedness. In Ethiopia, our Primary Health Care Strengthening Project focused on training first-line health workers.
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Health Policy & Management
Projects that focus on the administration, financing, and policymaking of health systems.
AIHA's Ethiopian projects funded by the Gates Foundation have all focused on this technical area, including our Leadership Incubation for Health Program, Primary Health Care Strengthening Project, and Strengthening HR Management and Practice in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.
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Emergency Health Management
Interventions that focus on preparedness and response for pandemics and disasters, including mass casualties and chemical exposures.
The Dr. Joseph R. Masci Legacy Project in Ethiopia and the Philippines focuses on targeted training of health workers and development of policies and protocols for effective response to mass-scale emergencies.
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Environmental Health
Projects that address the impact of climate change on health.
Examples include the Dr. Joseph R. Masci Legacy Project in the Philippines, supporting development of courses on resilient workforces and climate change medicine, and our Primary Health Care Strengthening Project in Ethiopia.
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Social & Behavioral Health
Projects that analyze community, social, and behavioral factors affecting health outcomes.
AIHA's community-based projects to support Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nigeria and HIV prevention and direct service delivery in the Philippines are examples of our work in this technical focus area.
Learn More →HIV/AIDS Twinning Center
2004 – 2019 · PEPFAR / HRSA55+ twinning partnerships in 14 countries. Over 50,000 health workers trained in-service and 10,000+ pre-service graduates across sub-Saharan Africa.
View Project →Blood Safety – Asia & Eurasia
2012 – 2018 · CDCStrengthening blood transfusion services across five countries: Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.
View Project →Knowledge Hub for HIV/AIDS in Eurasia
2004 – 2012 · CDCDeveloped 40+ training courses, reaching 6,437 health workers across 12 Eurasian countries with WHO/Europe and GIZ support.
View Project →PrEP Training – South Africa
Completed · Gilead SciencesPartnered with FPD/PACASA to train Clinical Associates in pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention.
View Project →Eurasian Healthcare Partnerships
1992 – 2008 · USAIDPioneering hospital-to-hospital twinning partnerships across 20+ countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
View Project →Emergency Medical Services – Eurasia
Various · USAIDTrained 40,000+ clinicians and first responders across Eurasian nations in pre-hospital care and emergency medicine systems.
View Project →DREAMS Initiative – Kenya
PEPFARSupported 32,500+ adolescent girls and young women through HIV prevention, education, and economic empowerment programming.
View Project →School-Based HIV Prevention – Kenya
PEPFARReached 770,000+ primary school pupils with a peer-led HIV prevention intervention through institutional twinning.
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Africa
HIV/AIDS, OVC, nursing, laboratory strengthening, maternal health, and leadership development across 14+ countries.
Eurasia
Emergency medicine, blood safety, TB control, infection prevention, and primary care across 20+ countries since 1992.
Asia & Americas
HIV prevention in the Philippines, blood services in Cambodia, and social welfare programs in Colombia and the Caribbean.
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