Our Impact

Since its introduction in 2012, the HITSystem has support HIV services for over 42,000 pregnant women and mother’s living with HIV and 50,000 infants born to mothers living with HIV across over 100 hospitals in Kenya and Tanzania. This includes approximately 15,000 infants and 6,000 women in Kenya and 36,000 women and 35,000 infants in Tanzania.

Cluster-randomized control trials have evaluated the impact that the HITSystem has on pregnant women living with HIV and their infants.

Pregnant women living with HIV enrolled in antenatal services and tracked through the HITSystem were 3x more likely to receive complete care than those not tracked through the HITSystem; had better attendance at scheduled hospital visits; were more likely to deliver in a hospital; and were more likely to return for infant HIV testing on time.

Infants exposed to HIV who received HITSystem supported EID services were more likely to receive complete EID care compared to those receiving standard of care: 85% at HITSystem sites compared to 60% at standard of care. Within this aggregate measure of complete early infant diagnosis services, infants receiving HITSystem supported care were more likely to: receive prophylaxis for opportunistic infections; receive HIV testing at 6 weeks, 9 months, and 18 months; and initiate ART (if positive).

Furthermore, the HITSystem contributed to FASTER turnaround time of results to the hospital and FASTER return of results to the caregiver. More rapid result return provides the opportunity for more rapid ART initiation.