Healthcare Partnerships

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AIHA’s partnership model recognizes that host communities must develop a strong sense of ownership of both the programs and the methodology to achieve successful, sustainable outcomes. To facilitate this, we seek out active investment and participation from the overseas partners, their respective governments, and a wide range of local stake-holders to assure programs meet the unique and specific needs of each community. Similarly, the involvement of regional and national ministries of health in the planning and execution processes increases the likelihood that program activities are based on each country’s health reform priorities.

Professional time and expertise are not the only contributions expected of AIHA’s overseas partners and their local and national governments. Significant in-kind donations in the form of clinical and administrative facilities, capital improvements, purchases of equipment, and logistical support are often necessary to the successful implementation of partnership goals as well. Our model ensures that specific programmatic objectives are achieved through a continuous process of community-based strategic planning, data collection, and feedback.

Volunteerism and community involvement—both integral components of the partnership program—result in long-term commitments between towns, institutions, and individuals that, in most cases, continue to thrive on many levels well beyond the funding period. While these complementary notions of volunteerism and community involvement are often foreign concepts overseas, they are finding fertile ground among healthcare providers and others who are eager to improve the health status of their communities.

Currently, AIHA manages the Partnership to Improve the Health of Women and Children in Kosovo (2009-present).

AIHA also manages 32 peer-driven partnerships through the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center program.

For more information about healthcare partnerships that have graduated from AIHA's technical assistance program, please click here to search them by country.

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