CORE Knowledge Hub - Community Skill Boosting Sessions
The Knowledge Hub is a mutual learning and stakeholder engagement platform. The hub is coordinated by WP6, in close collaboration with WP4 for capacity building.
The Knowledge Hub is a compilation of webinars and other materials aimed at sharing best practices in community health services for communities most affected by HIV, TB, viral hepatitis and STIs. The Knowledge Hub will also be a place where community organisations and partners can share experiences and collect materials for solutions to issues encountered. The meetings will be recorded for post-event sharing on the CORE website.
Recorded Sessions
Tools and documents
COBATEST Updated Tool
The main objective of the WP5 is to consolidate and increase the scope and effectiveness of community-based services provision in an integrated prevention, testing, linkage to care and treatment adherence approach. It focus on early diagnosis of HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs, using a data collection tool based on community identified needs. WP5 helps to harmonise the testing and linkage to care data collected in the community services, generating Europe wide standardised indicators to be used at local, national, and regional level. For this the COBATEST network tools, developed in the framework of the HIV- COBATEST project, is used and adapted as necessary, following the Consensus recommendations for collection and integration of CBVCT testing and linkage to care data into national surveillance systems for HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs, generated in the INTEGRATE project.
This deliverable presents the process of adaptation of the COBATEST data collection tool, the agreements reached, and the final data collection tool adapted.
Review of legal/regulatory barriers to community-led and community-based service delivery
Review of legal/regulatory barriers to community-led and community-based service delivery
To achieve its goals, Project CORE engages key stakeholders and addresses legal, policy, and structural issues to facilitate the integration of community-driven approaches into disease prevention and health promotion strategies. It builds upon existing collaborations among regional networks and national and local organisations and leverages best practices and tools to support populations "left behind" in national responses. The project aims to integrate and harmonise community responses to the unique needs of people with multiple vulnerabilities.
Work Package 7 (WP7) is a crucial component of Project CORE and focuses on promoting policy initiatives, legal reform processes and changes in health service delivery structures in participating member states that facilitate the integration of community-led community-based initiatives into the response to HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs and tuberculosis services.
To this end, a standardised questionnaire aimed at gathering data on legal, policy and structural barriers was developed as one of the tools to analyse the current situation, identify shortcomings in national contexts and provide recommendations on enhancing available response plans.
