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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

HIV Care Cascade among Prisoners of the Mandalay Central Prison in Myanmar: 2011-2018.

Nang A Mwe Nom, Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Ajay M V Kumar, San Hone, Thida Thida, Thet Wai Nwe, Pyae Soan, Thurain Htun, Htun Nyunt Oo

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nang A Mwe NomNational AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health and Sports, Sagaing 02371, Myanmar.
Khine Wut Yee KyawInternational Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 75006 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0709-484X
Ajay M V KumarInternational Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 75006 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1011-8531
San HoneNational AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health and Sports, Nay Pyi Taw 15011, Myanmar.
Thida ThidaDepartment of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Pyin Oo Lwin 05085, Myanmar.
Thet Wai NweCentral Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports, Nay Pyi Taw 15011, Myanmar.ORCID 0000-0002-0132-6366
Pyae SoanNational AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health and Sports, Nay Pyi Taw 15011, Myanmar.
Thurain HtunInternational Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Mandalay 05021, Myanmar.ORCID 0000-0002-0991-4752
Htun Nyunt OoNational AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health and Sports, Nay Pyi Taw 15011, Myanmar.
Ministry of Health and Sports · MMInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · FRYenepoya University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prisoners have a higher HIV prevalence and higher rates of attrition from care as compared with the general population. There is no published evidence on this issue from Myanmar. We assessed (1) HIV test uptake, HIV positivity, and enrollment in care among newly admitted prisoners between 2017 and 18 (2) Treatment outcomes among HIV-positive prisoners enrolled in care between 2011 and 18. This was a cohort study involving secondary analysis of program data. Among 26,767 prisoners admitted to the Mandalay Central Prison between 2017 and 2018, 10,421 (39%) were HIV-tested, 547 (5%) were HIV-positive, and 376 (69%) were enrolled in care. Among the 1288 HIV-positive prisoners enrolled in care between 2011 and 2018, 1178 (92%) were started on antiretroviral therapy. A total of 883 (69%) were transferred out (post-release) to other health facilities, and among these, only 369 (42%) reached their destination health facilities. The final outcomes (censored on 30 June 2019) included the following: (i) Alive and in care 495 (38%), (ii) death 138 (11%), (iii) loss to follow-up 596 (46%), and (iv) transferred out after reaching the health facilities 59 (5%). We found major gaps at every step of the HIV care cascade among prisoners, both inside and outside the prison. Future research should focus on understanding the reasons for these gaps and designing appropriate interventions to fill these gaps.

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attritiondefaultincarcerated populationspeople living in closed settingsviral suppression

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