Open AccessHigh Coverage of Antiretroviral Treatment With Annual Home-Based HIV Testing, Follow-up Linkage Services, and Implementation of Test and Start: Findings From the Chókwè Health Demographic Surveillance System, Mozambique, 2014–2019
Author(s) -
Ishani Pathmanathan,
Robert Nelson,
Alzira de Louvado,
Ricardo Thompson,
Sherri Pals,
Isabelle Casavant,
Maria Judite Antonio Cardoso,
Dawud Ujamaa,
Juvêncio Bonzela,
S Mikusova,
Victor Chivurre,
Stelio Tamele,
Katrina Sleeman,
Guoqing Zhang,
Clement Zeh,
Trudy Dobbs,
Adolfo Vúbil,
Andrew F. Auld,
Melissa BriggsHagen,
Alfredo Vergara,
Aleny Couto,
Duncan MacKellar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002583
Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , population , linkage (software) , viral load , demography , environmental health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , gerontology , family medicine , nursing , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology , gene
Early antiretroviral therapy (ART) is necessary for HIV epidemic control and depends on early diagnosis and successful linkage to care. Since 2014, annual household-based HIV testing and counseling and linkage services have been provided through the Chókwè Health and Demographic Surveillance System for residents testing HIV positive in this high HIV-burden district.