Using a HIV registry to develop accurate estimates for the HIV care cascade - the Singapore experience.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Achieving UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets is a crucial step towards ending the AIDS epidemic. Many countries have published estimates of care cascades, although often with methodological limitations. We describe an approach that used the national HIV registry as a starting-point to determine the HIV care cascade and resulting UNAIDS 90-90-90 estimates for Singapore in 2014.

Methods

HIV is a legally notifiable disease in Singapore. The anonymized HIV registry data provided for a back-calculation model from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control to obtain 2014 estimates for the total number of persons living with HIV (PLHIV), and the count in the registry for proportions diagnosed with HIV and linked to care. Using additional data collected for a simple ra

SUBMITTER: Ho ZJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658839 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature