HIV treatment and care services for adolescents: a situational analysis of 218 facilities in 23 sub-Saharan African countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In 2013, an estimated 2.1 million adolescents (age 10-19 years) were living with HIV globally. The extent to which health facilities provide appropriate treatment and care was unknown. To support understanding of service availability in 2014, Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) supporting a network of health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa, undertook a facility-level situational analysis of adolescent HIV treatment and care services in 23 countries.

Methods

Two hundred and eighteen facilities, responsible for an estimated 80,072 HIV-infected adolescents in care, were surveyed. Sixty per cent of the sample were from PATA's network, with the remaining gathered via local NGO partners and snowball sampling. Data

SUBMITTER: Mark D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719719 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature