July 2023 – June 2025
Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, where 40% of the population is under 15, HIV prevalence rose from 0.9% in 2002 to 1.4% in 2020, two-thirds of whom are women. Only less than a third (29%) of the 80,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the country were on antiretroviral treatment in 2020 (UNAIDS Sierra Leone), a far cry from the 95% target set by the international community. Eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV also remains a challenge for the country. Faced with these challenges, Sierra Leone is committed to improving the HIV response to accelerate the achievement of global HIV targets, and has already updated and developed various strategic and operational tools to guide the response, such as the National HIV Strategic Plan 2021-2025. While until now, the HIV response has been seen as a vertical program, it has also been recognized that HIV services need to be integrated with other health services in order to achieve the national goal. Following on from the Empower, Empower 2 and NFM 3 projects, implemented by Solthis since 2016, the SHARE project aims to capitalize on Solthis’ HIV experiences in order to generate knowledge and document good practices.
General objective
Strengthen healthcare services and systems and make them more user-centered.
Beneficiaries
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35 healthcare facilities
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200 healthcare professionals
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15 national tutors
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1 CSO partner
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4 CSO members
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10 institutional partners
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900 people living with HIV (PLHIV) participating in project activities.
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76,000 PLHIV in Sierra Leone (including around 41,000 women, 25,000 men and 11,000 children).
Results
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Collection of best practices and evidence on Solthis’ past and present interventions to strengthen adherence, quality of care and community involvement in the fight against HIV
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The health system and the scale-up of high-impact HIV interventions in seven high-burden districts are strengthened
