ArticleAIDS and behavior2019
Re-thinking Linkage to Care in the Era of Universal Test and Treat: Insights from Implementation and Behavioral Science for Achieving the Second 90.
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- People living with HIV's perspectives of acceptability of fee for home delivery of ART: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Does a youth intern programme strengthen HIV service delivery in South Africa? An interrupted time-series analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Article
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- Perspectives on linkage to care for patients diagnosed with HIV: A qualitative study at a rural health center in South Western Uganda.PloS one · 2022Article
- "Provider discretionary power practices to support implementation of patient-centered HIV care in Lusaka, Zambia".Frontiers in health services · 2022Article
- Temporal trends in pre-ART patient characteristics and outcomes before the test and treat era in Central Kenya.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- A 17 year experience of attrition from care among HIV infected children in Nnewi South-East Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Attrition in HIV care following HIV diagnosis: a comparison of the pre-UTT and UTT eras in South Africa.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Article
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- Patient-reported reasons for declining same-day antiretroviral therapy initiation in routine HIV care settings in Lusaka, Zambia: results from a mixed-effects regression analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Article
- Index and targeted community-based testing to optimize HIV case finding and ART linkage among men in Zambia.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Article
- Reaching the second 90: the strategies for linkage to care and antiretroviral therapy initiation.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2019Review
- Implementation Science: Helping to Accelerate Progress Toward Achieving the 90-90-90 Goal.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
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Abstract
To successfully link to care, persons living with HIV must negotiate a complex series of processes from HIV diagnosis through initial engagement with HIV care systems and providers. Despite the complexity involved, linkage to care is often oversimplified and portrayed as a single referral step. In this article, we offer a new conceptual framework for linkage to care, tailored to the current universal test and treat era that presents linkage to care as its own nuanced pathway within the larger HIV care cascade. Conceptualizing linkage to care in this way may help better identify and specify processes posing a barrier to linkage, and allow for the development of targeted implementation and behavioral science-based approaches to address them. Such approaches are likely to be most relevant to programmatic and clinical settings with limited resources and high HIV burden.
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