Health and HIV/AIDS
EnCompass’ support in health, particularly HIV/AIDS response is wide-ranging. Many of our staff have field experience in the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS worldwide, with particular expertise in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
A significant share of our work has focused on assisting U.S. Government agencies and international organizations to strengthen their global HIV response.
We currently provide technical assistance and capacity-building services to organizations working in support of improving health outcomes. Our services in health include:
- Design and facilitation of health training curricula and e-learning
- Evaluation of health programs and projects
- Strategic planning for health organizations
- Development of health standards, selection of indicators and outcomes, data collection and analysis, formulation and testing of solutions, and evaluating the performance of innovative models
- Costing analysis related to health outcomes
- Documenting programs, best practices, and lessons learned in health
Featured Project
U.S. Agency for International Development, AIDS Support and Technical Resources Program, Task Order I (2008-2013)
EnCompass is a subcontractor to John Snow, Inc. for the AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources Program Task Order 1 (AIDSTAR-One), a mechanism to implement the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The AIDSTAR-One Project focuses on HIV prevention, care, and treatment. EnCompass provides expertise in quality improvement, cost-effectiveness, policy, and gender equality. EnCompass is developing guidance for integrating a gender-based violence (GBV) response in PEPFAR programming. We have also developed a conceptual framework for the provision of South-to-South technical assistance in the five PEPFAR gender strategies and will pilot this framework with USAID in 2011. Other activities have included the design and implementation of costing studies to support cost-based decision making in counseling, testing, and treatment and the development of several knowledge products, specifically: technical briefs on mental health and HIV and GBV and HIV; case studies on combination HIV prevention, gender-based violence, and gender approaches to programs with most at-risk populations; e-learning programs on pediatric AIDS treatment; and, an assessment of a food by prescription program.