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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create awareness at health facilities through health talks, promote positive health practices and ensure completeness and track community referrals.

• Conduct follow-up of missed appointments and lost clients through phone or physical contact follow-ups. Ensure reports are completed on daily basis

• Provide health education, counselling and follow up mother-baby pairs who have missed their appointments PMTCT/EID. The Linkage facilitator will work with the health facility in charge and e-MTCT focal persons to identify HIV positive women and men who have passed through the PMTCT/ART programme.

• Provide individual and group counselling as well as sharing life experiences with clients to support adherence.

• Operate at mother baby care points to increase uptake, sustainability and promote adherence to option B+ services through formal and informal interaction with newly enrolled mothers

• Provide follow-on psychosocial support and counseling on e-MTCT services

• Follow up clients who have missed their clinic appointment and lost clients

• Enlist male partners to support their spouses who have enrolled on e-MTCT services and for them to test for HIV

• Screening of Clients/Conduct Nutrition assessment at outpatient contact points (OPD, YCC, PNC, ANC, HIV, TB, MBCP)

• Provide psychosocial support and adherence counselling for children and adults with HIV

• Actively walk clients from one service point to another within the health facility.

• Link clients and caregivers to other service organizations for community-based care and support services using referral forms & registers

• Participate in retrieving client files before the clinic and filing them back after the clinic

• Support in the filling of appointment books, generate search list and make phone calls for Lost to Follow Up (LTFU clients).

• Keep list of clients you are supposed to support and follow up including list of clients; counseled, assessed for malnutrition, linked, and attached. Compile monthly reports.

• Any other duties assigned from time to time.