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- Title
Feasibility and sustainability of a school-based platform for integrated delivery of HPV vaccination with adolescent health services in Tanzania: qualitative insights from stakeholders.
- Authors
Rosen, Joseph G; Guillaume, Dominique; Mlunde, Linda B; Njiro, Belinda J; Munishi, Castory; Mlay, Davis; Gerste, Amelia; Holroyd, Taylor A; Giattas, Mary Rose; Morgan, Christopher; Kyesi, Furaha; Tinuga, Florian; Ishengoma, Joseline; Sunguya, Bruno F; Limaye, Rupali J
- Abstract
To meet lofty human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization goals in Tanzania, the Ministry of Health integrated HPV vaccination with adolescent health services using a school-based approach. A qualitative study was conducted in June–July 2021, examining the feasibility and sustainability of an integrated service package, HPV Plus. In-depth interviews with 46 programme implementers (i.e. health-care workers and teachers) and planning stakeholders (i.e. government officials and school administrators) in Dar es Salaam and Njombe Regions explored enablers and constraints to HPV Plus programme implementation, including resource and staffing requirements. Two facilitators and three barriers to HPV Plus feasibility and sustainability were identified from thematic analysis of interviews. Interviewed stakeholders emphasized the programme's feasibility, especially if the efficiencies offered by a school-based platform were optimized. Implementation facilitators included (1) optimized service delivery efficiency through a school-based platform and (2) resources saved by combining adolescent health services and HPV immunization into a single programme package. Key barriers to HPV Plus feasibility and sustainability were (1) time, space and resource constraints (e.g. commodity stockouts and challenges delivering the complete service package to large cohorts of students within allotted times); (2) human resource gaps and increased workloads within the health workforce and (3) insufficient referral mechanisms linking schools to health facilities. Scaling up HPV Plus will require proactive commodity procurement and security; resource mobilization to reach ambitious service delivery targets and close co-ordination of programme implementation with school administrators.
- Subjects
TANZANIA; DAR es Salaam (Tanzania); HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines; ADOLESCENT health; MEDICAL care; HUMAN papillomavirus; RESOURCE mobilization
- Publication
Health Policy & Planning, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 4, p486
- ISSN
0268-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/heapol/czad014