Travel time to health-care facilities, mode of transportation, and HIV elimination in Malawi: a geospatial modelling analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

UNAIDS has prioritised Malawi and 21 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa for fast-tracking the end of their HIV epidemics. UNAIDS' elimination strategy requires achieving a treatment coverage of 90% by 2030. However, many individuals in the prioritised countries have to travel long distances to access HIV treatment and few have access to motorised transportation. Using data-based geospatial modelling, we investigated whether these two factors are barriers to achieving HIV elimination in Malawi and assessed the effect of increasing bicycle availability on expanding treatment coverage.

Methods

We built a data-based geospatial model that we used to estimate the minimum travel time needed to access treatment, for every person living with HIV in Malawi. We constructe

SUBMITTER: Palk L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7738178 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature