C. Opportunities for COLLABORATION
1. Under the present configuration, GALZ is engaged with Wilkins Hospital and with PSI
in Harare and Bulawayo to provide services to its constituency. Although the intended
viability.
D. Opportunities for CONCEPTUALISATION
outcomes are identical, the partnerships with Wilkins and PSI are independent of each
The Situational Analysis suggests a number of opportunities for innovation and thought
other. Through GALZ, however, Wilkins and PSI become thematically linked around
leadership, for the articulation of concepts that may lead to design and practice-development:
Sexual and Reproductive Health to Key Populations. And in that link lies the potential
for peer exchange. Each facility has experience, expertise and technical capacity from
1. The development of a framework to describe the components of “Good KP Health
which the other might learn, in order to improve the quality of SRH service provision
Service Provision”, including the concept of a “system for health”, models for “integrated”
in both.
and “comprehensive” services, and designs for facility layout and patient flow.
2. The development of a comprehensive package/programme – content, process,
tools and measurement – for localised sensitisation of health care service providers to
For example:
• Wilkins Hospital follows the general guidelines for management of STIs, but has
sexual and gender identities, and to sexual and reproductive health for LGBT people.
no clinical guidelines specific to Key Populations that may, for instance, highlight
3. The development of a more intensive initiative, possibly applied at multi-country
infections that may present symptomatically in the mouth or throat or anus. PSI is
level, for the capacity-building of health care providers around sexual and reproductive
a non- governmental organisation that has developed an electronic point of care
healthcare or LGBT people. Ideally, this initiative should address attitudinal, practice
system (EPOC), internal to PSI, with guidelines that include KP-specific treatment
and behavioural, and clinical requirements of service providers; may build provider
protocols consistent with national guidelines, and diagnostic questions that are
capacity to be SOGIE-literate, SOGIE-affirming and respectful of diversity; and provide
designed to be, theoretically, non-heteronormative and appropriate for working
an introduction to health-related rights and ethics. It may be possible that a similar
with KPs.
stream be designed for LGBT people who are not clinicians, but have an interest in
engaging with the system for health, or for increasing their rights literacy.
• PSI claims to offer a service that is ‘integrated’, but is more accurately described
4. Development of a concept where LGBT lay-people might occupy supportive roles
as ‘comprehensive’. Clients to PSI move between multiple ‘specialist’ departments
within health facilities, to complement clinical staff, and act as a familiar peer-link
for specific services, increasing wait time and contact time and exposure. By
to care from within the facility, not only at community level. This concept would
contrast, Wilkins works as much as possible through a single point of care,
require thought around roles, appropriate task-shifting, skills-development, training,
providing as many services as possible in one staff member trained to deliver
resourcing and supervision.
multiple services.
5. The Situational Analysis exercise in Zimbabwe has field-tested a simple methodology
to stimulate participatory community monitoring of health facilities by members
There may be a role for GALZ to stimulate interest in this kind of technical collaboration,
of Key Populations that leads to better engagement with service providers, quality
to facilitate an exploration of comparative advantage between the facilities, to support
improvement and opportunities for policy engagement around community-identified
the convening of the facilities, etc.
issues. Might this simple method be capable of application at scale through a multicountry process in a region such as Southern Africa? Such a process could focus
2. Health Facilities are utilising or generating materials, tools, standards, procedures
on the use of public health monitoring where the right to stakeholder participation
and protocols for training staff or as guidelines to staff for the delivery of care.
bridges health and rights, expands citizen action for public accountability, safely
Members of Key Populations would have valuable insight to contribute in the reviewing
and responsibly increases the visibility of invisible populations to service-providers,
of materials to make recommendations around their accuracy, appropriateness and
opens a path for accessible interaction by community members with statistical health
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