Epworth Clinic

MSF invested in the capacity building of MoHCC staff, new buildings, and refurbishments including to Overspill clinic and Epworth Clinic, and the construction of new a pharmacy and laboratory. The program focused on the introduction of ‘task-shifting’: training nurses to administer HIV and TB treatment in the absence of Medical doctors and training of primary care counsellors in the absence of professional counsellors and psychologists.

Epworth Clinic was also part of the shift to community based models of HIV care, including the creation of 109 Community ART Refill Groups (CARGs) with over 1146 people living with HIV/AIDS enrolled in the groups. MSF also set up a youth friendly corner within the Epworth Clinic to provide support to young people and encourage them to take responsibility of their own health and of their peers within the community.

After 11 years, and with the rate of HIV and AIDS now in decline, MSF handed over its program at the Epworth Clinic to nurses and doctors from the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) at the end of 2017.

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