Our projects
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The effectiveness, health system implementation requirements, cost effectiveness and acceptability of point-of-care HIV viral load testing and HIV drug resistance monitoring for the management and control of HIV in Papua New Guinea (PNG). |
Status
Underway
Year
2021
Named PI/Co-PI
Angela Kelly-Hanku
Other investigators
S. Badman, J. Gare, A. Vallely, P. Boas, P. Rips, W. Pomat, P. Kombea, A. Mek, R. Boli – Neo, S. Slim, N. Gideon, A. Gurung, P. Cunningham, V. Wiseman, T. Rinda, Z. Kombati, S. Shih, W. Porau, M. Bagita, A. Kelleher, L. Doyle, R. Gray, J. Newland
Lead EMCR
Ruthy Boli
# of EMCRs
1
Regional setting
LMIC / Asia- Pacific
Discipline
Social Science
The Problem
Centralised HIV viral load and early infant diagnostics.
The Solution
Decentralised, clinic-based HIV viral load and early infant diagnosis. 101 Semi-structured interviews with people living with HIV, caregivers of children with HIV and key stakeholders shows that clinic testing was highly acceptable and feasible.