Observational studyThe Pan African medical journal2023
Contribution of community-based organizations in the improvement of Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS 90-90-90: case of the Yaoundé Central Hospital.
Observational study in The Pan African medical journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Community-based organizations (CBOs) are one of the initiatives implemented in Cameroon to improve access to antiretroviral treatment and influence retention in treatment centers. Despite its importance in the decongestion of patients in health facilities, we do not have data to evaluate the overall impact of these organizations. We conducted a two-part observational study. The first part was a descriptive cross-sectional study, where we included patients screened and initiated on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) either by the approved Treatment center (ATC) of Yaoundé Central Hospital (YCH) or by any of our CBOs in 2020. Then, the second part was a retrospective cohort-type study including patients from the 2015 cohort followed up from 2018 to 2020 in order to assess viral load suppression. As regards the first "90", 7,234 screening tests were performed by CBOs in 2020 out of the 28,302 screening tests registered at the YCH, giving a contribution of 25.6%. From the 7,234 screening tests performed by CBOs, 314 people had an HIV-positive result and 230 (73.34%) were linked to ART through CBOs. From the 28,302 screening tests performed at YCH, 1,089 people had an HIV-positive test, and only 354 (32.50%) were linked to ART, giving a significant difference in the link to ART (P-value < 0.00). Concerning the 3
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