RfP - Thematic evaluation of Paediatric HIV care in OCB-settings

BACKGROUND

Children living with HIV continue to face significant barriers to accessing appropriate care worldwide. Clinical, social, and structural factors affect their timely diagnosis, initiation of antiretroviral therapy, linkage to care, viral load monitoring, and long-term retention in care, including age-appropriate adherence support.

The MSF Operational Center Brussels (OCB) has formally committed to strengthening paediatric HIV care across its portfolio, through two ambitions: 1) ensuring that vertical HIV projects adequately address paediatric HIV needs; and 2) integrating paediatric HIV services into the basic package of care in projects where relevance is high (e.g., malnutrition programmes).

Despite these initiatives, there is a shared perception that important gaps persist along the paediatric HIV cascade of care in OCB projects.

PURPOSE AND INTENDED USE

This evaluation aims to assess how effectively paediatric HIV services in OCB projects are functioning, and identify where improvements are most urgently needed. It will analyse the accessibility, quality and continuity of paediatric HIV care across the entire care cascade in projects supported by MSF, identify bottlenecks, missed opportunities, enabling factors, and good practices, and generate evidence-based recommendations at project, programmatic and organizational levels.

The primary intended use is to inform the development of MSF-OCB’s overall Paediatric HIV programming and guide strategic decision-making for enhancing HIV paediatric activities in existing and future OCB health interventions. 

EXPECTED STARTING DATE: May/June 2026

DURATION: Final report expected by December 2026 at the latest

APPLICATION

The proposal should include:

• a technical proposal
• CV(s) with contact details
• a previous work sample
• a budget proposal in Euros (EUR)

Interested teams or individuals should apply to [email protected] referencing INPEH no later than Sunday 17 May 2026 – 23:59.

For more information on the context, deliverables, and requirements, please refer to the Terms of Reference linked at the end of this page.