Fast-track treatment initiation counselling in South Africa: A cost-outcomes analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In 2016, under its new National Adherence Guidelines (AGL), South Africa formalized an existing model of fast-track HIV treatment initiation counselling (FTIC). Rollout of the AGL included an evaluation study at 24 clinics, with staggered AGL implementation. Using routinely collected data extracted as part of the evaluation study, we estimated and compared the costs of HIV care and treatment from the provider's perspective at the 12 clinics implementing the new, formalized model (AGL-FTIC) to costs at the 12 clinics continuing to implement some earlier, less formalized, model that likely varied across clinics (denoted here as early-FTIC).

Methods

This was a cost-outcome analysis using standard methods and a composite outcome defined as initiated antiretroviral t

SUBMITTER: Larson BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7971492 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature