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BEST PRACTICES IN HIV TREATMENT CASCADE
Sandile Buthelezi
14 April 2016
ICAP at Columbia University
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Presentation Outline • Global Scale-up of HIV Treatment
• Effect of ART on Life expectancy
• HIV Cascade and causes of the leakage
• Who is ICAP at Columbia University?
• Targeted testing of index patients of pregnant women in DRC (1st 90)
• Increasing linkage to care in Kenya (2nd 90)
• Efforts to increase retention in Swaziland (3rd 90)
• Multiple interventions to decrease leakage in the cascade in Mozambique (Target all the 90s)
• Concluding remarks
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Global Scale-up of HIV Treatment
Pro
jecte
d
Tre
nd
2003 2015
African Region
Source: Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting (WHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS)
15
15 m
10 m
5 m
Nu
mb
er
receiv
ing
AR
T
12.9
2013
Achieved
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Number of people receiving ART 2014
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Effect of ART on Life Expectancy
5
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
19
60
19
70
19
80
19
90
20
00
20
10
Botswana
Kenya
Lesotho
Swaziland
Uganda
World
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Source: World Bank, 2014
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ART
Eligible Link
McNairy & El-Sadr AIDS 2012
HIV Care Cascade/Continuum
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Leakages in Continuum of HIV Care
80
62
41 37 28
40
24 16
11
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100
HIV Positive Diagnosed Linked to Care
Retained/ Initiated
Retained on ART
Virus Suppressed
US SubSaharan Africa
McNairy & El-Sadr AIDS 2012
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• Limited access to effective antiretroviral treatment
• Barriers to adherence (e.g., substance use, homelessness,
mental illness)
• Limited availability of adherence support, harm reduction
services
• Lack of outreach services
• Limited access to treatment/waiting lists
• Limited treatment literacy and fear of side effects
• Provider attitudes regarding ART initiation for some patients
• Limited access to care services
• Barriers (e.g., poverty, substance abuse, homelessness,
mental illness)
• Stigma (e.g., racial/ethnic, gender)
• Mistrust of the healthcare system
• Unaware of importance of HIV Care
• HIV testing not accessible or underutilized
• Providers and individuals unaware of HIV symptoms or risk
• Health services unwelcoming or punnitive
• Unaware of individual risk for HIV
• Vulnerable and disenfranchised populations at higher risk
• Limited access to HIV testing in supportive environments
• Refusal of testing due to denial or stigma
• Provider practice of risk-based versus routine screening
Inability to Achieve and Maintain Viral Suppression
Late Initiation of ART
Failure of HIV Positives to Link to Care
Late Diagnosis of HIV Disease
Unaware of HIV Status
Quality of Care Challenges
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ICAP is affiliated with the Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University, in the City of New
York, United States.
ICAP AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Where ICAP Works
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ICAP’s Focus
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Promising practices to achieve 90-90-90
in ICAP supported countries
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Facility and home-based testing of partners of index
patients
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Background
• Low HIV prevalence: 1.2% [0.6% in men and
1.6% in women]
• Proportion of male partners of pregnant women
knowing their HIV status about 10% in FY14
• Need to find innovative ways to increase HIV
testing among male partners
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Targeted facility based testing
• Invitation given to pregnant
women for their partner to
come during ANC visit
• HTS provided to male partners
visiting their wives at the
facility after the delivery
• FY14 10% male partners
tested compared to 7% in
FY13 21609
82407
135770 142043
1828 6078
14093 20700
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
160000
FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15
HTS - Pregnant women and male partners
Pregnant women tested Male partners tested
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Targeted community based testing
• In addition to targeted facility based testing, 2
new approaches aiming at improving male
partner testing were developed:
1. Sensitization with focus on HTS during week-ends at
selected facilities
2. Pilot Home-based testing in targeted health zones:
Bumbu and Ngaba
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Home-Based HIV Testing Pilot
• Five facilities selected:
– With at least 50 new pregnant women attending ANC
each month
– Located in 2 health zones (Bumbu, Ngaba)
– Health care workers willing to go into the community
• Target
– Male partners of Pregnant women HIV+ or HIV- with
unknown HIV status and not coming at the facility
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Approach
• Information given to pregnant and lactating women about
the home-based testing pilot project during education
sessions
• Further discussion with the women during pre-test
counseling
• Home visit planning:
– according to information provided by pregnant / BF women – i.e. best
day/time to come at their home to reach their partner
– per geographical areas
– during week-ends
– three nurses involved per facilities
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Results
0
200
400
600
800
HTS – Pregnant women and male partners – FY14
Pregnant women tested Male partners tested
0
200
400
600
800
HTS – Pregnant women and male partners – FY15
Pregnant women tested Male partners tested
In FY15, 43.4% male
partners knowing their
HIV status at the 5
selected HFs
In FY14, 17.7% male
partners knowing their
HIV status at the 5
selected HFs
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Challenges
• Male partners not present, unavailable
• Confidentiality – multiple families living in the
same compound
• Geographic inaccessibility: remote areas,
transportation issues
• Incorrect addresses
• Refusal by male partners to test
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Intensified efforts to increase linkages
to care in Kenya
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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15 Sep-15 Oct-15
Per
cen
t Li
nka
ge
Introduction of the linkage register
Development of a referral directory and
provision of a mobile phone
Monthly HTC review
meetings Same-day
enrollment and physical
escort
Linkage from HIV Testing to Care in Kenya
Goal = 90%
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Intensified Efforts to Increase ART
Retention in Swaziland
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24 months retention: SNAP_E Evaluation report (national)
87%
82%
76%
72% 72%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
6 12 24 36 48
Months on ART
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Interventions
• The Expert Client Program
• Linkages and Retention SOPs
• Patient Follow up
• Rural Health Motivators
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The Expert Client Program
• PLWH clients identified
• ICAP provides training
and mentorship to EC
• EC became active MDT
members.
• Annual Review meetings
enable feedback from
facilities on EC progress
and recommendations to
strengthen service
delivery.
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Linkages and Retention SOPs
ICAP Supported the development of
this SOP which greatly improved the
performance of the Care cascades
Provided TA to health facilities to
implement the SOP
Set up Defaulter Tracking Committees
in all supported facilities
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Patient Follow-up
• Strengthened appointment system for patients
• Developed a “Call Register” used to follow-up clients who miss appointments.
• Tracks all cell phone calls made to clients who miss appointments.
• Outcome/result of the call is documented.
• Clients are then re-appointed in the appointment register.
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Rural Health Motivators (RHMs)
• Objective:
– To strengthen linkages of facilities
and communities.
• Trained Lead RHMs in all
facilities
– Patient Follow up,
– supportive supervision
• Developed and distributed RHM
Face Pages and RHM Directories
to all sites
• Paid through CBOs
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Results: Proportion of patients active on ART 12 months after ART initiation APR 2010 -2015
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*
Target 75% 85% 90% 83% 87% 89%
Results 77% 84% 82% 86% 90% 92%
77%
84%
82%
86%
90%
92%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
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Challenges
1. Expert Clients are not part of the MoH workforce
establishment
2. Cross border employment
3. Stigma for key pops: MSMs and FSWs are criminalized
4. Industrial Firms
5. High loss to follow-up of PMTCT B+ mother baby pairs
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Interventions to enhance care
continuum-Mozambique
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Link
Pharmacy bar code
SMS reminders
HCWs motivation Non-monetary incentives
Mothers 2 Mothers groups
Pregnant women kit
Youth Friendly Services
Patient navigators
Peer educators program for patient support and tracing of defaulting patients
Delivery of key messages in the community through CBOs
Delivery of key messages and demand creation through community radios, drama groups, artists
GAAC – Community ART Support Groups
Home-based HCT
Link
Targeted counselling
(PW*)
ART
Eligible
Viral Load testing roll out
Community
Interventions throughout the cascade
One Stop Model
Clinical Mentoring
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Concluding Remarks
• Treatment cascade need specific interventions at specific points
• Interventions to be context specific (no size fits all)
• Quality to be ensured at all levels of cascade
• Interventions should be sustainable and replicable in similar settings
• We should also learn from bad practices as they are as valuable as promising practices
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Acknowledgements These projects were made possible by the U.S. President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the
United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) under different cooperative agreements. The
contents of the presentation are solely the responsibility of
ICAP at Columbia University and do not represent the views
of CDC, USAID and those of the U.S. Government.
Thanks to different ministries of health staff in relevant
countries as well as ICAP teams in different countries.
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Thank you for your attention