Scale-up of antiretroviral treatment access among people living with HIV in Rivers State, Nigeria, 2019--2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate the impact of the programme intervention of the Rivers State Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Surge, a collaboration between the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the State Ministry of Health, to increase HIV case-finding and ART access in Rivers State, the state with the largest ART gap among people living with HIV (PWH) in Nigeria.

Design

During April 2019-September 2020, the intervention included six specific strategies: using local government area-level ART gap analysis to guide case-finding; expanding targeted community testing; tailoring comprehensive key population HIV services; engaging HIV treatment programme stakeholders; synchronizing team efforts; and using near real-time data for

SUBMITTER: Boyd AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature