This fact sheet offers an overview of FHI's Treatment and Care Initiative, a unique effort to introduce antiretroviral therapy (ART) into settings that offer HIV/AIDS prevention and care services.

The first ART learning sites, supported by local USAID missions under our IMPACT project, are in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda.  It is necessary to use the learning site approach because of limited resources for treatment and the need to gather lessons quickly before scaling-up.

The programs in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda are geographic in focus, allowing multiple entry points to care and treatment.  Each fosters a close collaboration between national, district, and private sector entitites and coordinates activities among clinical care facilities, community support systems, and NGOs.