Characteristics and comprehensiveness of adult HIV care and treatment programmes in Asia-Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas: results of a site assessment conducted by the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaboration

dc.contributor.authorDuda, Stephany N.
dc.contributor.authorFarr, Amanda M.
dc.contributor.authorLindegren, Mary Lou
dc.contributor.authorBlevins, Meredith
dc.contributor.authorWester, C. William
dc.contributor.authorWools-Kaloustian, Kara
dc.contributor.authorEkouevi, Didier K.
dc.contributor.authorEger, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorHemingway-Foda, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorCooper, David A.
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Richard D.
dc.contributor.authorMcGowan, Catherine C.
dc.contributor.authorNash, Denis
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Medicine, IU School of Medicineen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-29T16:35:37Z
dc.date.available2016-06-29T16:35:37Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-15
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: HIV care and treatment programmes worldwide are transforming as they push to deliver universal access to essential prevention, care and treatment services to persons living with HIV and their communities. The characteristics and capacity of these HIV programmes affect patient outcomes and quality of care. Despite the importance of ensuring optimal outcomes, few studies have addressed the capacity of HIV programmes to deliver comprehensive care. We sought to describe such capacity in HIV programmes in seven regions worldwide. METHODS: Staff from 128 sites in 41 countries participating in the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS completed a site survey from 2009 to 2010, including sites in the Asia-Pacific region (n=20), Latin America and the Caribbean (n=7), North America (n=7), Central Africa (n=12), East Africa (n=51), Southern Africa (n=16) and West Africa (n=15). We computed a measure of the comprehensiveness of care based on seven World Health Organization-recommended essential HIV services. RESULTS: Most sites reported serving urban (61%; region range (rr): 33-100%) and both adult and paediatric populations (77%; rr: 29-96%). Only 45% of HIV clinics that reported treating children had paediatricians on staff. As for the seven essential services, survey respondents reported that CD4+ cell count testing was available to all but one site, while tuberculosis (TB) screening and community outreach services were available in 80 and 72%, respectively. The remaining four essential services - nutritional support (82%), combination antiretroviral therapy adherence support (88%), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) (94%) and other prevention and clinical management services (97%) - were uniformly available. Approximately half (46%) of sites reported offering all seven services. Newer sites and sites in settings with low rankings on the UN Human Development Index (HDI), especially those in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief focus countries, tended to offer a more comprehensive array of essential services. HIV care programme characteristics and comprehensiveness varied according to the number of years the site had been in operation and the HDI of the site setting, with more recently established clinics in low-HDI settings reporting a more comprehensive array of available services. Survey respondents frequently identified contact tracing of patients, patient outreach, nutritional counselling, onsite viral load testing, universal TB screening and the provision of isoniazid preventive therapy as unavailable services. CONCLUSIONS: This study serves as a baseline for on-going monitoring of the evolution of care delivery over time and lays the groundwork for evaluating HIV treatment outcomes in relation to site capacity for comprehensive care.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDuda, S. N., Farr, A. M., Lindegren, M. L., Blevins, M., Wester, C. W., Wools-Kaloustian, K., … the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaboration. (2014). Characteristics and comprehensiveness of adult HIV care and treatment programmes in Asia-Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas: results of a site assessment conducted by the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaboration. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 17(1), 19045. http://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.17.1.19045en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/10251
dc.publisherInternational AIDS Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.7448/IAS.17.1.19045en_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of the International AIDS Societyen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.sourcePMCen_US
dc.subjectHIV care capacityen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.subjectClinic characteristicsen_US
dc.subjectComprehensive careen_US
dc.subjectResource-limited settingsen_US
dc.titleCharacteristics and comprehensiveness of adult HIV care and treatment programmes in Asia-Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas: results of a site assessment conducted by the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Collaborationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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