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• Provide and maintain National PMTCT
  guidelines in the district health facilities to ensure that HWs follow MOH
  guidelines to implement PMTCT activities;
• Work in liaison with District and Regional
  QI teams provide mentorship for QI to the district HWs to support
  implementation of QI methodology to improve PMTCT services and participate
  in QI team meetings at facility and district level;
• Actively participate in the identification
  of training needs of health workers in the districts to appropriately target
  capacity building interventions;
• Support and conduct training to equip HWs
  with knowledge and skills in PMTCT service delivery;
• Work closely with PMTCT focal people in
  the districts for better implementation and coordination of health
  facility PMTCT interventions;
• Actively participate in the budgeting
  process in liaison with the EMTCT technical advisor to ensure that funds
  are allocated for the appropriate activities;
• Liaise with the PMTCT Technical advisor to
  correctly requisition funds for timely implementation of planned eMTCT
  activities in the supported Districts;
• Send to the finance department
  accountabilities for the funds utilised and used for eMTCT activities;
• Participate in the development of work
  schedules with the cluster team for proper manpower planning and
  continuity of service delivery;
• Lobby for rational distribution of
  resources among the supported facilities to support scale up of eMTCT
  services in the districts;
• Carry out mapping of PMTCT stakeholders in
  the districts to develop a directory of potential linkages and
  partnerships RHITES EC could engage to scale up PMTCT services;
• Carry out mapping of HC IIs and other
  potential outreach sites that can be used as differentiated service points
  to facilitate accessibility to PMTCT services among underserved
  communities;
• Participate in District meetings to create
  awareness among committee members to understand their roles and
  responsibilities in PMTCT activities;
• Work with the community arm to strengthen
  the VHT referral system of clients from the community to the health
  facilities such that the clients receive comprehensive PMTCT services at
  the health facilities;
• Ensure all pregnant women presenting at
  the district health facilities receive HCT services to identify the HIV
  positive mothers to be enrolled into HIV care;
• Support the counselling of all HIV
  positive mothers to ensure adherence to treatment and retention in care;
• Work closely with the district facility
  HWs to ensure effective inter-facility and intra-facility referral and
  review of women for PMTCT and Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of exposed
  infants and Promote proactive identification of exposed infants from all
  entry points to ensure early infant diagnosis of HIV and enrolment into
  care;
• Support the formation and coordination of family
  support groups in the districts and ensure that they function within the
  National guidelines to provide psychosocial, adherence and follow-up
  support to HIV affected families;
• Work with the cluster Community Liaison
  Officers to ensure that community mechanisms for follow-up of pregnant and
  lactating mothers, mother-baby pairs and other family members, linkage to
  HIV care, and treatment and retention in care are put in place;
• Ensure availability of equipment/tools for
  use during execution of PMTCT services in the district health facilities
  for the smooth running of the programme;
• Regularly review, monitor performance and
  submit progress reports to the PMTCT Technical Advisor and cluster
  coordinators to determine attainment of previously set targets;
• Review of all the data tools used in PMTCT
  at the health facilities to ensure proper and complete documentation;
• Support the timely and correct forecasting
  and ordering of PMTCT commodities by the district health facilities to
  ensure continuous supply of tools, drugs and test kits;
• Strengthen and support accurate
  documentation in all PMTCT tools to monitor the progress of PMTCT program;
• Support HWs to submit accurate and timely
  reports such that PMTCT achievements are appropriately assessed and
  suitable interventions designed;
• Actively participate in data collection at
  the facilities for periodic reporting to ensure timely reporting and
  review progress;
• Work closely with data team to ensure that
  facilities submit their weekly and monthly reports to MOH resource centre
  in time for benchmarking;
• Participate in facility CMEs,
  Journal/research activities as relevant to professional background to get
  updates and share knowledge and experiences for professional development
  and support learning.

• The applicants for the USAID RHITES-EC
  Program Officer – Prevention Mother-to-Child Transmission job opportunity
  must hold a Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery;
• Additional training in PMTCT;
• The applicant must be registered with the
  Nurses and Midwives Council;
• Must be in possession of a valid
  practicing Licence;
• A minimum of three years’ experience as a
  Nurse/Midwife in the District Health System;
• At least two years’ experience in
  providing PMTCT services.
• Broad knowledge of the current WHO and
  National eMTCT framework and guidelines;
• Previous experience in Coaching and
  Mentoring.

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