Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH

Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH replied to "Expanding on a community outreach program in rural Lesotho" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Ailis -- It's wonderful to read about your efforts in Lesotho. I help direct Tiyatien Health (http://www.tiyatienhealth.org), a community-based, social justice organization that has adapted some of PIH CHW models to provide DOT-HAART and accompaniment in rural Liberia. We've been working with the Government of Liberia to rollout its first rural public ART program, the HIV Equity Initiative, at a district hospital in Zwedru. I'll echo responses from Mona and Joia: we've found employing ...

Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH started a discussion "Support for cost-effectiveness of home-based care for HIV patients" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Sharing two key studies presented at the Int'l AIDS Society Conference in Cape Town. The study from Lesotho and Uganda found that outcomes among HIV patients through home-based care were similar to those receiving clinic-based care. The home-based care model was more cost-effective: /snip/ While the differences in treatment outcomes in the patients appear negligible, the number of visits to the facility per patient differed significantly between those in the home-based care group (4.2 visits) ...

Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH started a discussion "Vacancy: Program Coordinator, Tiyatien Health (Zwedru, Liberia)" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Tiyatien Health is pleased to announce a Request for Applications (RFA) for the position of Program Coordinator to be based at our primary project site in Zwedru, Liberia. The RFA can be accessed at http://www.tiyatienhealth.org and directly through http://www.tiyatienhealth.org/storage/Tiyatien%20Health%20Liberia%20Program%20Coordinator%20RFA_final.pdf We would be grateful if you distributed this announcement widely among your colleagues and within your professional and personal networks. Please accept our apologies if you’ve received this announcement more than once. ...

Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH started a discussion "How best to deliver HIV and complex disease care in rural settings?" in the Adherence & Retention community.

I help run a Liberia-based social justice organization, Tiyatien Health ("Justice in Health"), which, in partnership with the Liberian Ministry of Health, has built the first community-based HIV treatment program in rural Liberia. Inspired by Haiti's HIV Equity Initiative, our program, seeks to determine how best to deliver HIV and complex disease care in rural settings. Liberia's HEI has had preliminary success employing CHWs to deliver ARVs along with socioeconomic support. You can find more ...

Rajesh Panjabi, MD, MPH started a discussion "Tiyatien Health: Accompaniers Roles & Responsibilities" in the Adherence & Retention community.

This document lists the key responsibilities of Tiyatien Health's community health workers (so-called accompaniers) in providing accompaniment and supervised antiretroviral treatment in rural Liberia