PSI is an international non-governmental organisation. Through the partnership
with GALZ, two PSI New Start Centres – Africa House and Bambanani – offer
a broad range of SRH services to key populations, in Harare and Bulawayo
respectively. PSI differs from Wilkins in several respects: it is not a public sector
facility; it is not a general hospital – its service offering and strategy expand
from HIV-related prevention and treatment interventions that are entry-points
into other SRH services, or where specific SRH services are entry-points into
HIV testing and treatment.
Method
a. In Harare: gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (including male
sex workers); lesbian and bisexual women and other women who have sex with women,
The Situational Analysis applied a qualitative approach to explore perspectives and
perceptions about health service provision to members of key populations, based in the
experiences of both service users and service providers. Components of that process included:
1. Informal, iterative, recursive conversation with members of the senior management and
programme staff of GALZ to better understand the context for facility-based healthcare
provision facilitated through GALZ to its LGBT constituency. Additionally, at least one member
of the GALZ team accompanied each stage of the data collection process for transparency,
ownership and insight, and for process accountability.
2. Brief conversations with the Director and Programme Manager of the Sexual Rights
with trans-men; trans- women; representatives of the clinical and management team of
Wilkins Hospital; representatives of the clinical team of PSI Africa House.
b. In Bulawayo: gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men; lesbian and
bisexual women and other women who have sex with women; trans-women and gender
non-conforming person; representatives of the clinical team of PSI Bambanani.
LGBT representatives were members of GALZ, some of whom were engaged within the
partnership with health facilities as Peer Mobilisers, each of whom were either service-users
of one of the three health facilities or had been referred or recommended to the facility but
elected not to present for treatment.
Centre (SRC), a collaborating partner with GALZ, based in Bulawayo, to deepen insight into
the health and rights ecology for LGBT people in Zimbabwe.
3. Unstructured interviews with the Facility Managers of PSI New Start clinics in Harare
(Africa House) and Bulawayo (Bambanani), and with the KP Mobiliser at PSI Bulawayo.
These discussions gave insight into the scope of services provided by the facilities, and to
technical and strategic direction that informed their service offer to key populations.
4. Separate semi-structured focus group conversations, spanning 60-120 minutes each,
lightly facilitated with a variety of representative stakeholders:
PERCEPTIONS, PERSPECTIVES
Access to facility-based health services for LGBT people in
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