Founded in 1968, the Center for Human Services (CHS) is a community-based organization that aims to improve the quality of and access to health, educational, and social services around the world. Together with its for-profit affiliate, University Research Co., LLC (URC), CHS manages projects in over 45 countries, including the US.
CHS offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems. Internationally, we expand access to and improve the quality of services addressing maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; food and nutrition; and vulnerable children and families. In the US, we focus on improving communication related to issues like substance abuse, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations.
CHS’s mission is to work with communities to meet today’s challenges and take advantage of tomorrow’s opportunities by improving the quality of and access to health, educational, and social services for those most in need in the US and around the world.
In response to the 'Global Plan toward the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive (eMTCT),’ the PMTCT IATT Working Group on Child Survival, WHO, PEPFAR and technical partners, constituting The Partnership for HIV-Free Survival (PHFS), are supporting national efforts in six high HIV-burdened countries – Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda – to develop and scale up programming to implement the 2010 WHO PMTCT Guidelines, including protection of those infants from vertical transmission and provision of optimal nutrition and care through 12-24 months of infancy. Together, the effectiveness of ARVs to reduce HIV transmission and the benefit of extended breastfeeding to reduce deaths due to malnutrition, diarrhea, and pneumonia represent an exceptional opportunity to improve HIV-free survival of infants born to HIV-infected mothers.
CHS is looking for a technical advisor to fill a position under the Partnership for HIV Free Survival that include the following responsibilities: