Zambart
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PopART
HPTN 071
Research and Development
to Improve Health for All
Vol. 1 Edition # 1, 2015
PopART
HPTN 071
Newsletter
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International Advisory Group representatives visit HPTN 071 sites
Study on evaluation of uptake of universal HIV testing starts
Zambart commemorates International Condom day
HPTN 071/PopART Study Annual
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome Note
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Foreword
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HPTN 071/PopART Study Annual Workshop - 2015
HPTN 071 International Advisory Group visit Chipulukusu, Kanyama, Chawama and Chipata
sites
Zambia - South Africa HPTN 071/PopART Study Community HIV Care Providers conduct
joint field visits
PopART study implementing partners to formulate new strategy to strengthen linkage to
care
The Search for Men:
Kitwe intervention conduct “No Missed Opportunity” operation
Man up Now!! Campaign Launched
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Evaluation of universal HIV testing in PopART study underway
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‘Story of the Trial’
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Zambart joins LOVE Condoms Campaign
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Zambart Stars
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Welcome Note
Welcome to the first edition of the quarterly
HPTN 071/PopART study newsletter. The
aim of the newsletter is to share stories
and experiences from study staff, and is
designed to give you a platform through
which information about what is happening
within PopART study sites can be found.
Content to be featured in the newsletter
will be sought from all study sites and
will focus on what’s- happening-news,
items of interest, and important updates,
activities and achievements from all the 12
sites. The newsletter will offer a light, but
informative read.
I therefore want to encourage all study
sites to send their reports and story ideas
to our Communications Section at Head
Office. The communications team will also
continue to make efforts to reach all sites
for site-specific stories and information.
Do not wait to be reached, if you have
anything of interest you would like to share
with others on the PopART study, you’re
welcome to send it through to the office.
In this edition, you will find some humaninterest features and announcements on
how Zambart is making in-roads in its efforts
to helping to improve people’s lives through
research. You will also get a chance to read
about some of social activities happening in
the study sites.
I hope that you will find this first edition an
informative read and take time to give us
some feedback about the content. You can
also find the on-line version of the newsletter
on our website: www.zambart.org.zm
Enjoy reading!
Dr. Alwyn Mwinga
CEO - Zambart
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Foreword
I am pleased to write the foreword for the first
newsletter of the HPTN 071/PopART study.
PopART is one of the biggest HIV prevention
trials in the world currently underway and
everyone in the study should be proud of being
part of such a unique effort to reduce new HIV
infections in the region.
The first year of the study has had its own
successes and challenges and we have learnt
a lot of lessons. My sincere gratitude goes to
the entire study staff who have made this study
possible, particularly those who have been with
us from the beginning of the study in 2013
and who are determined to contribute towards
making a difference in HIV prevention research. I
also hope that those of you who have joined us
along the course of the study will stay with us
until the end.
I would also like to acknowledge the contribution
of the various advisory boards, implementing
partners and community stakeholders whose
advice has been invaluable in ensuring that the
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study is implemented well.
As we move into the second year of the study, my
hope is that everyone will continue putting in their
best so that the study reaches its targets. Even as
we face unforeseen challenges, everyone should
remember that obstacles can be used as stepping
stones to success. Don’t turn around and give up
when you run into a wall, figure out how to climb it,
go through it or work around it because it is those
that endure who eventually achieve their goals.
HPTN 071/PopART trial will not achieve what
it was set to achieve without your individual and
collective involvement.
Lastly, thank you all for your hard work and may
we continue to look to the Almighty God for the
grace to carry on this study to its completion.
Dr. Kwame Shanaube, MD, PhD.
HPTN 071/PopART Study Manager
HPTN 071/PopART Study Annual Workshop - 2015
HPTN 071/PopART study staff
and implementing partners
from all over the world gathered
from 2nd-5th February 2015
in Lusaka, for their annual
workshop to review progress
in the on-going HIV prevention
trial being conducted in Zambia
and South Africa, and chart the
way forward as the trial enters
its second year.
The
Populations
Effects
of
Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce
HIV Transmission study is a two
country cluster-randomised trial
of the impact of a combination
prevention package on populationlevel HIV incidence. It is the single
largest HIV prevention trial to be
conducted yet involving over 1
million people, and is being carried
out in 21 communities across
Zambia and South Africa.
therapy to see how far we can get
in stopping new HIV infections.
This is a big undertaking,” said
HPTN principle investigator Dr
Myron Cohen on the side lines of
the workshop.
Dr Cohen said through several
aspects
of
implementation
activities, PopART was benefitting
individuals
and
communities.
“In the treatment communities,
you see that everyone with HIV
who needs treatment is receiving
treatment. For every new case of
HIV we prevent, there is a dramatic
benefit to the families and to the
individuals who avoid infection to
their communities.”
Dr Cohen said PopART put
together all the tools to prevent new
cases of HIV. “HIV is the pandemic
of the 20th century. We’ve spent
35 years getting ready to put
these tools together and if we can
maximise our prevention strategies
and deploy them more generally, it
will be a terrific advance.”
HPTN 071 Principal Investigator
Dr Richard Hayes, said the study
had made tremendous progress
in the first year whose main focus
was getting people to test and
know their HIV status. He said
the Population Cohort had visited
over 30,000 households with the
Study leadership and partners
had an opportunity to hear directly
from country staff who shared
their experiences and challenges
in the main plenary sessions and
through working groups. Zambart
Communications caught up with
the study leadership to get their
views on the study progress.
“PopART is a realisation of
combination prevention centred on
maximising the use of antiretroviral
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I am confident that as
long as we can deliver
the intervention to a high
quality and achieve that
high coverage that we are
looking for, we will be able
to answer the question
whether this can reduce
the number of new HIV
infections substantially in
these severely affected
communities”
intervention arm providing services
to a large number of people.
“Overall, the achievement has been
enormous. We’ve already got a lot
of information that we did not have
before on what are the challenges
on delivering universal test and
treat,” said Dr Hayes adding that
the possibilities of delivering ART
within the communities was now
being considered. “We’re looking
at how our Community HIV Care
Providers can best support the
process,” he said.
The PopART intervention main
objectives in year two will be
addressing major problem areas
such as access to care, adherence
and retention, and increasing
the uptake of medical male
circumcision. “We found that we
have much higher uptake of our
services among women. This is
something we need to work on
very hard. It’s our number one
challenge and we are looking at
various strategies,” Dr Hayes said.
Dr Richard Hayes- HPTN
071 Principal Investigator
He expressed concern that unless clinical services, the intervention
those testing HIV positive can get would not work. “We’ve been very
to the clinics and start accessing good at getting people to test and
finding out their status, but the next
step is to get people into care and
on to treatment and suppress the
virus, and making sure we keep it
suppressed all the time for years to
come. This is critical,” he said.
Dr Hayes said despite the change
in national ART guideline in Zambia
and South Africa, PopART study
will still be able to answer the main
questions.
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HPTN 071 International Advisory Group visit popart
study sites
Co-funders of the HPTN 071/
PopART study and members
of the International Advisory
Group (IAG) visited Zambia in
February, and took time to visit
arm A and C sites in Chipulukusu
(Ndola), Chipata, Kanyama, and
Chawama (Lusaka) to get a
ground level view of how the
study is progressing.
The
IAG
team
comprised
representatives from the Global
Fund, World Health Organisation
(WHO), the Joint United Nations
Programme
on
HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS), US National Institutes of
Health, and US National Institutes
of Mental Health (NIMH), London
School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM).
Local site staff were on hand to
receive the IAG members who had
split into groups for the respective
site tours. From head office
PopART study site PI Dr Helen
Ayles, PopART study manager Dr
Kwame Shanaube, Phylogenetics
study manager Dr Mohammed
Limbada, intervention manager
Ephraim Sakala, population cohort
manager Justin Bwalya, and HIV
testing quality control manager
Comfort Rutty Phiri, joined the sitebased staff who included respective
district intervention coordinators,
district administrators, Community
HIV Care providers (CHiPs), and
community mobilisers.
The IAG members were able to
observe day-to-day activities at the
Kanyama, Chipata, and Chawama
first level hospitals as well as
Chipulukusu health clinic where
their tour of the facilities were led
by the respective sister in-charges.
They met with the PopART clinical
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research nurses and visited the
ART clinics, ART pharmacies,
laboratories and Data rooms
where they interacted with heads
of department on the number of
cases, flow and processing of
patients, and investigations carried
out on clients and distribution of
results, and filing of clients’ record.
They also visited other hospital
departments like the Mother
and Child Health (MCH), main
Laboratory.
“
Meanwhile in the field where they
had been paired to accompany
the CHiPs in the community, the
advisors got to observe CHIPs
offering the intervention package
This is the first time ever
that I have been out with
the community teams
who have performed
HIV rapid testing 100
per cent correctly- well
done.”
- Dr Rachael Baggeley,
HIV Prevention Lead,
World Health Organisation
including conducting the HIV rapid tests. However, not all IAG
teams were able to go out in the
field because of rainy weather, for
example in Chawama. .
The IAG team noted a marked
improvement in the delivery of
the PopART intervention in the
community and at the sites, and
expressed satisfaction. Specifically,
they noted the amount of work
put in by the CHiPS when offering
health education about the various
PoPART interventions, and the fact
that clients were not pressured into
consenting to be enrolled in the
study. The advisors were also able
to directly the various field teams.
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Zambia - South Africa Community HIV Care Providers
conduct joint field visit
HPTN 071/PopART study
Community HIV Care Providers
(CHiPs) got a chance to work
side-by-side in delivering the
study intervention package
in Kanyama and Chipata
PopART sites during the
recently held HPTN 071
annual workshop held in
Lusaka.
Other
workshop
delegates also braved heavy
rains to visit some PopART
sites in Zambia.
The field teams comprised
Zambart and Desmond Tutu TB
center (DTTC) comprised CHiP
teams, District Administrators,
CHiP supervisors, community
mobilisers,
social
science
research assistants, population
cohort
research
assistants,
district intervention coordinators,
and Human Resources manager
from DTTC also accompanied
the teams.
The teams were twinned
according to their respective
work in the field. This allowed
the Zambian team to share
experiences and lessons, and
also interact with their South
African counterparts on the work
they do. It also gave the South
African team a direct glimpse of
the Zambian field situation.
The
teams
drew
more
similarities in the PopART study
implementation in both countries
than differences, but noted some
differences in the roles. In Zambia
for example, the DICs have mixed
professional backgrounds, while
in South Africa DICs are nurses.
It was also observed that under
population cohort, quality control
is done on site by the PC nurse
in Zambia, while in South Africa,
QC is done by the PC research
assistant and where the PC
nurses and research assistant’s
daily targets are half of those
for their Zambian counterparts.
However, the number of clients
an intervention team is expected
to recruit per day was less for
Zambia 8-9, than their South
African colleagues recruit at 11
clients per day.
However, notable differences
included
a
violent
work
environment for South Africa,
particularly for their research
assistants who because of
violence have to move in a
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escort a sick client to the clinic,
in South Africa we don’t, we refer
them to other community health
workers,” said Babalwa Solinjani,
a South African CHiP among
those paired with their Zambian
colleagues at Chipata site.
Phindiswa Malangeni, another
Arm “A” CHiP noted the different
ethical considerations. “In South
Africa, we write a referral letter
and indicate the client’s HIV
status, in Zambia they give the
client a referral slip to take to the
clinic.”
vehicle, than Zambia. In addition,
it was learned that social science
research assistants in in South
Africa do not attend community
meetings unlike their Zambian
counterparts.
The South African field teams
reported that houses in South
African
study
communities
were very close together than
in Zambia, making it easier
for the intervention and PC to
reach more people in a smaller
catchment
area.
However,
PopART zones in Zambia are
much larger than those in South
Africa and the large distances
enabled the Zambian CHiPs to
be more thorough and spend
more time with clients.
Zambart communications caught
a group of the South African field
staff upon their return from the
site and they had this to say:
“It was a great experience, they
do exactly the same consent
forms as us. What is interesting
is that the PopART staff here
Another CHiP Siziwe Makonza,
noted that the relation between
Zambart PopART and staff at the
government clinic is good. “But
the stigma experiences and most
of the problems our Zambian
counterparts face in the field, we
are also encountering the same
challenges,” she said.
Chipata PopART site District
Intervention
Coordination
Rosemary Zulu described the
CHiPs twinning as a good initiative
that should be encouraged as
it helped field staff to interact
with their counterparts. “This
interaction made it possible for
the field staff to share lessons
learned from their respective
countries,” she said.
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PopART study partners map new strategy to
strengthen linkage to care
The HPTN 071/PopART study
has been implemented in all
study sites for a year now, with
much of the output indicators
reaching expected levels of
achievement. However, linkage
to care which is a central output
among the services in the
PopART intervention package
has been relatively slow with
sites recording few numbers
of clients tested for HIV and
referred to health facilities
by the Community HIV Care
Providers (CHiPs) accessing
care.
At end of year 1, Linkage to Care
figures showed an average 34 per
cent for all 8 intervention sites in
Zambia, far below the expected
80 per cent by this end of year one
of the study. To this end, PopART
study staff and implementing
partners gathered to map out new
strategies and models that can help
improve and strengthen linkage to
care in year 2 of the study.
A one day workshop at Zambart
House,
brought
together
critical PopART study staff and
collaborators. The PopART study
team from Zambart comprised
study
manager
Dr
Kwame
Shanaube, Phylogenetic study
manager Dr Mohammed Limbada;
Statistician Ab Schaap; intervention
manager - Ephraim Sakala; district
intervention coordinators, Quality
Assurance manager Comfort Rutty
Phiri, Community Engagement and
Social Science teams in PopART
were led by Dr Virginia Bond.
Meanwhile implementing partners
and collaborators included Centre
for Infectious Diseases Research
in Zambia (CIDRZ), AIDS Relief,
Churches
Health
Association
Zambia (CHAZ), ZPCT II, Ministry
of Health (MoH), CDC, and the
District Community Medical Office
(DCMO) under the Ministry of
Community Development, Mother
and Child Health.
Giving a summary of on the status
of Linkage to Care in the PopART
intervention , Head of Zambart
Data Unit, Ab Schaap, said at the
close of year 1, figures showed
an average 34 per cent for all 8
intervention sites in Zambia, far
below the expected 80 per cent by
the end of year one of the study.
Dr Bond outlined possible barriers
to linkage to care from observations
made by social science research
assistants deployed in all PopART
intervention sites (Arm A & B),
while Steve Belemu of community
engagement highlighted various
stigma related issues and stressed
the need to strengthen antistigma advocacy within the study
communities. Fear of stigma
against those with HIV was
reported to have a direct impact on
access to care by clients referred
by Community HIV Care Provides
(CHiPs) for treatment to health
facilities. ZPCT II shared lessons
learned during field visits to the
community, while CDC gave the
statistical data on HIV linkage to
care in Zambia from an outcome of
a study they previously conducted.
The workshop analysed various
linkage to care models being used
by respective PopART collaborators
with the aim of adopting successful
models into the study intervention
package. Among the models
discussed were the Community
Model implemented by AIDS
Relief, and Community Adherence
Groups (CAG) by CIDRZ. The
DCMO presented other models
that employ the use of community
volunteers at the health facility level
to track clients accessing care in
various departments such as TB,
ART, as well the use of defaulter
tracing and the mobile SMS
reminder system.
The workshop concluded that
most models presented focused on
retention to care of clients already on
ART, while the challenge of getting
clients into care still remained. It
was agreed that an integrated
model would be developed
with assistance from MoH, after
which a taskforce comprising all
PopART implementing partners
and collaborators would be set-up
to come up with a single common
model for adoption.
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The Search for Men
Kitwe intervention team acts to raise
male enrollment in PopART
Male involvement in health
promotion and uptake can
be difficult due to men’s
reluctance to engage in health
services. This has also been
the experience during the
on-going Population Effects
of Antiretroviral Therapy to
Reduce HIV Transmission
HPTN071/PopART trial and
has thus raised concern
among the study researchers
about the study outcomes.
In Kitwe, following a review of
data, it was discovered that
18 per cent of male household
members were absent from the
household each time a visit by the
Community HIV Care Providers
(CHiPs) was scheduled. The
trend was gradually affecting the
study indicators. Overall, as at 30
September, 2014 after 9 months
of implementation, male inclusion
in PopART trial was 72% i.e. 28%
of males were not contacted with
the door-to-door approach.
This prompted key intervention
staff in Kitwe to put their heads
together and generate innovative
initiatives to engage men in
the community in an effort to
increase their participation and
scale up delivery of the PopART
intervention package to in
Chimwemwe community.
An action plan dubbed “No
Missed Opportunity” was soon
initiated and the first task was to
identify all possible work places
and spaces where males could
be found within particular zones,
including crowded social places
that men often frequent and
where PopART tents could be
mounted. This was followed by
orientation of the CHiPs from all
the zones about the objectives
of the plan and allocate them
specific tasks.
No Missed Opportunity was
rolled out in 4 days in all parts
of Chimwemwe, which has 20
zones. These zones were subdivided into 5 zones each with
the objective of reaching 90 to
100 males. In each zone, the
coordination and mobilization
was spearheaded by the CHiPs.
The No Missed Opportunity
intervention strategy managed
to reach 179 people of which
8 were females and 171 were
males against the targeted 100
by the end of the initiative. Of the
total number of men reached,
147 were enrolled into the study
and all the 8 females. All of these
were tested and provided with
their results on site in mounted
tents.
Issues attributed to low male
participation in PopART activities
included stigma and cultural
norms, as well as economic
issues where men are the
breadwinners of the household.
It was also observed that
men preferred to be the first
in the household to enrol, but
would decline enrolment if a
female household member had
preceded them. Some of the
men who accepted to be enrolled
from the workplaces had refused
enrolment
where
previously
found at home by the CHiPs.
Man up Now!! Campaign Launched
Zambart, under the HPTN 071/
PopART trial launched a health
campaign aimed at increasing
uptake of the intervention by
males in the trial, and raising
their awareness and access
to primary health services,
particularly HIV prevention and
care at community level. The trial
aims to determine the impact of
offering a house-to-house HIV
combination prevention package
(including universal test- and
treat) on community-level HIV
incidence.
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The campaign named “Man up
Now!” has been rolled out in 4
northern intervention communities
so far and aims to reach an
estimated an estimated 30,000
men. The event has been
conducted in Makulu (Kabwe),
which piloted the campaign,
while the others are Chipulukusu
(Ndola); Ndeke and Chimwemwe
(Kitwe).
PopART study manager Dr.
Kwame Shanaube says the
Man up Now! initiative is an
unprecedented campaign by the
study team seeking to raise male
inclusion in primary health services
at community level and promote
male engagement in the on-going
HPTN 071/PopART study.
“Men’s reluctance to seek
primary health services is well
documented,”
Dr
Shanaube
explained.
Zambart
is
collaborating with the Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Community
Development, Mother and Child
Health
(MCDMCH),
PopART
study partners and stakeholders
at district level to mobilize and
sensitize the community on the
need to access health services
through this campaign.
Community Engagement manager
Musonda Simwinga said the Man
up Now! campaign is designed
to generate demand for primary
health services in the community
and also support the community
engagement
objectives
of
PopART. “The message we are
trying to take to the community
is that a health - conscious man
raises a healthy family and this
leads to a healthy community.”
that will result into tangible sharing
of resources and ideas. Hopefully,
this can scale up efficiency in the
delivery of services provided at
community level,” said Musonda.
The Man Up Now! campaign
runs for 2 days and is usually
characterized
by
various
community-mobilisation
and
awareness activities. Free health
screening services
which
include HIV voluntary counselling
and testing, prostate cancer
information, eye screening, blood
pressure checkups, diabetes
screening will be offered. Health
talks are also conducted.
The response from Community
members
from
the
target
communities was overwhelmingly
positive. Most people appreciated
the ‘one stop’ provision of health
services that were offered at the
man up now campaign.
The northern campaign events
took place between October and
December 2014, and the next
health campaign is scheduled
to take place in Dambwa,
Livingstone in April, 2015. The
Livingstone event will target both
men and women screening for
other communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
Simwinga said the campaign is
also an opportunity for community
and faith-based organisations to
pool and leverage their resources
towards HIV prevention and
treatment.
“The campaign will create linkages
between community stakeholders
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Man up Now!! Campaign Launched
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Evaluation of universal HIV testing in
PopART study underway
A third study of the on-going
HPTN 071/PopART study has
started in the Zambia PopART
sites. The Case Control Studies
will seek to evaluate the
uptake of home-based PopART
intervention delivered houseto-house by the Community
HIV Care Providers (CHiPs).
The studies will specifically
examine the HIV testing, a key
component of the PopART
intervention package, and will
be progressively rolled out in
arms A and B sites in Zambia.
In March, the case Control
studies will be extended to a
further 6 intervention sites in
South Africa.
Clinical epidemiologist, Dr Kalpana
Sabapathy working on the
PopART trial and manager of the
Case Control studies explained
that the cases are randomly
selected to represent the wider
community to help PopART
researchers understand the
features and factors associated
with the uptake and non-uptake
of the PopART services in the
first year of the PopART trial, and
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adapt the intervention accordingly.
“It was always anticipated that
not everybody would accept
the testing intervention, which is
key in Universal Test and Treat
approach. We planned this study
as part of the main design of the
trial to evaluate acceptability of the
testing in the intervention after the
1st year to facilitate improvements
which may be introduced in the
2nd and 3rd years,” Dr Sabapathy
explained.
She said that by looking at
differences between 2 groups
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of cases, researchers will get
insight into sub-sets of the
community not accepting the
PopART intervention and allow
them to adapt it in a bid to get
those people not accepting the
intervention to accept it eventually:
“To achieve overall PopART goal
of universal home-based testing,”
Dr Sabapathy said.
The Case Control studies will run
over a period of 2 months and
involve 500 people in Zambia, and
300 in South Africa.
‘Story of the Trial’
During the intervention
years, one major social
science component within
the HPTN 071/PopART study
is to describe ‘The Story of
the Trial’, namely how the
study intervention is being
implemented and how the
communities respond to the
intervention and research.
at the clinics e.g. Any changes
in how clients access treatment
and care at the clinic, walking
and talking in communities to
notice the visibility of PopART
and experiences with PopART,
documenting stakeholder presence
and activities, and, accompanying
CHiPs and PC teams in the field.
Currently, interviews are being
conducted with study management
In order to achieve this, the Social
staff at Zambart headquarters to
Science team (comprising 7 staff
explore their role and experiences
at headquarters and eight Social
with implementing the PopART
Science Research Assistants (RA)
study in its first year. Similar
in the intervention sites) have since
interviews will be carried out with
the beginning of the intervention,
other stakeholders and site staff,
carried out observations in the
including group discussions with
sites and interviews with various
community members. Many of
individuals that have been involved
these activities will be repeated
in the study implementation. These
annually.
observations involve identifying
structural and procedural changes Additionally, the social science
team is sometimes called upon
to explain and discuss challenges
and barriers to the intervention.
For example, the social science
team together with the community
engagement team, has been
documenting the community
mobilization events including the
‘Man up Campaign!’ Similarly, social
science has been instrumental
in documenting and reflecting
on factors affecting client linkage
to care in the sites and factors
influencing the lower uptake of HIV
testing in particular sites.
Zambart joins love Condoms Campaign
Zambart joined local HIV
stakeholders to mark the
global 2015 International
Condom Day which was held
under the theme ‘Condoms are
Cool’. The event held annually
on Feb 13 in conjunction with
Valentine’s Day, is organised
by the AIDS Health Care
Foundation (AHF) to promote
safe sex through widespread
access, usage and acceptance
of condoms as a vital
component of the global fight
against the AIDS pandemic.
In Zambia, the event attracted
participation from the National
AIDS Council (NAC), Ministry of
Community Development, Mother
and Child Health (MCDMCH),
local HIV non-governmental
organisations, students from
higher learning institutions such as
the University of Zambia, National
Institute of Public administration
(NIPA) and Evelyn Hone College.
MCDMCH minister Emerine
Kabanshi, the Guest of
Honour at the event and said
government planned to double
the procurement of antiretroviral
drugs and improve service delivery
infrastructure. AIDS awareness
activities characterised the event,
which included live performances
by local performing artists. Rapid
HIV testing, accompanied by
condom distribution and other
HIV prevention services were
also offered on-site by various
organisations at the event.
outreach work for the on-going
HPTN 071/PopART study which is
testing the impact of a combined
package of several HIV prevention
interventions at the community
level on HIV transmission. Condom
distribution to households and
the community in intervention
sites is part of the PopART study
intervention package.
Zambart teams from Kanyama
and Chipata sites who included
PopART intervention manager,
district intervention coordinator,
social science research assistants,
Community HIV Care Providers
(CHiPS) and their supervisors,
took the opportunity to do some
Created in 2008, International
Condom Day is a campaign that
seeks to put an estimated 20 million
HIV positive people on ART by
2020. ADF wants sexually active
people to consistently use condoms
to help reduce the risk of new HIV
infections.
PopART study Newsletter |
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Zambart Stars
After disappearing from the soccer
front for a couple of years, the Zambart
soccer team has swung back into the
local social league! Under a new name
as Zambart Stars, they are now the
official soccer side for Zambart.
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Despite a long absence from the scene,
the all-new Zambart Stars are not to be
underestimated. The last few months
have seen the side -flying the Zambart flag
high by entering fearlessly into the current
league to compete with other renowned
soccer sides in Lusaka, and have so far
raised a lot of dust even among some of
the strongest competitors.
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The team drawn mostly from energetic
Chipata Site Community HIV care Providers
(CHiPs) and head office – make a lean and
mean striking force as can be evidenced
by their recent exploits. The technical
bench comprises of two coaches, one
team “doctor” and one team manager who
together have built a strong and highly
motivated team. Both the head office and
site players train twice a week for match
preparedness and general fitness.
Some highlights of major competitions
the Stars have played in the last season
include the Vice President’s Cup last June,
and in which the Stars white washed all
competitors to emerge as winners and
brought home the trophy. In September,
they came runners-up in the Men United
versus Cancer tournament organised by the
Zambia Cancer Society to raise awareness
about cancers in men and men’s health
issues. In both of these matches, the
man-of-the-match and golden boot were
awarded to the Stars.
Zambart soccer administrator Mr Kombe
Kenani, said the current form and
unmatched determination exhibited by
Zambart Stars in commendable. He said
the team’s management is considering
entering into an even more competitive
league which will see the Stars compete
against some of the renowned clubs under
the Football Association of Zambia. In
2015, the Zambart Stars are planning to
start an inter-Zambart league where they
will play with teams from other Zambart
sites, Mr Kenani said.
Below is a snapshot of some of the games Zambart Stars have played so
far.
Date
Tournament
Result
March 2014
Zambia Army
Zambart (1) vs Zambia National Service (1)
Zambart (0) vs Libala (4) (Quarter final)
April 2014
Vice President
Zambart (6) vs Embassy of the People’s Republic
of China (1)
Zambart (3) vs Comedians (1)
Zambart (1) vs Zambia National Broadcasting
Corporation (0)
June 2014
Zambart (7) vs ZCCM IH (0)
Zambart (3) vs G4S (4)
July 2014
Zambart (3) vs CHAWAZI (3)
Zambart (3) vs Zambia Daily Mail (0)
Aug. 2014
Sept. 2014
Zambart (0) vs NINAS FC (0)
Men Vs Cancer
Zambart (4) vs Cavmont Bank (1)
Zambart (1) vs ZCCM IH (0)
Zambart (0) vs Lamasat (2) (Final Game)
Sept. 2014
Zambart (3) vs G4 Security (0)
Zambart (0) vs Chilenje (0)
vs Kamwala
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Nov. 2014
Zambart (3) vs Town Centre Warriors (6)
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vs G4A
Security
Oct. 2014
Feb. 2015
Zambart (4) vs ZAF (1)
March 2015
Zambart (5) vs Barclays (0)
Zambart (1) vs Radian Stores (3)
Zambart (4) vs Ninas FC (2)
..And many more
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National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse