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A Health Systems Approach to More Effective Decentralised HIV Prevention: Development of Malawi’s Blantyre Prevention Strategy
This article from BMJ Global Health provides background on and shares the experiences of the Blantyre Prevention Strategy (BPS), a health systems-based approach to HIV prevention that directs investments towards embedding essential functions within Blantyre City and District in Malawi. The approach includes developing district-led systems and capabilities in effective disease surveillance and data-driven targeting, demand generation, quality service delivery and promoting the sustained use of HIV prevention interventions. Early learnings from BPS offer lessons for other low- and middle-income countries seeking to implement HIV prevention strategies that bolster their health system capacity and integrate with broader health responses.