Evaluating strategies to improve HIV care outcomes in Kenya: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV mortality has decreased, yet life-years are still lost to AIDS. Strengthening of treatment programmes is a priority. We examined the state of an HIV care programme in Kenya and assessed interventions to improve the impact of ART programmes on population health.

Methods

We created an individual-based mathematical model to describe the HIV epidemic and the experiences of care among adults infected with HIV in Kenya. We calibrated the model to a longitudinal dataset from the Academic Model Providing Access To Healthcare (known as AMPATH) programme describing the routes into care, losses from care, and clinical outcomes. We simulated the cost and effect of interventions at different stages

SUBMITTER: Olney JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5121132 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature