Journal article
Strengthening HIV surveillance in the antiretroviral therapy era: Rationale and design of a longitudinal study to monitor HIV prevalence and incidence in the uMgungundlovu District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
ABM Kharsany, C Cawood, D Khanyile, A Grobler, LR McKinnon, N Samsunder, JA Frohlich, Q Abdool Karim, A Puren, A Welte, G George, K Govender, C Toledo, Z Chipeta, L Zembe, MT Glenshaw, L Madurai, V M Deyde, A Bere
BMC Public Health | BMC | Published : 2015
Abstract
Background: South Africa has over 6,000,000 HIV infected individuals and the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is the most severely affected. As public health initiatives to better control the HIV epidemic are implemented, timely, detailed and robust surveillance data are needed to monitor, evaluate and inform the programmatic interventions and policies over time. We describe the rationale and design of the HIV Incidence Provincial Surveillance System (HIPSS) to monitor HIV prevalence and incidence. Methods/Design: The household-based survey will include a sample of men and women from two sub-districts of the uMgungundlovu municipality (Vulindlela and the Greater Edendale) of KZN, South Africa..
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Funding Acknowledgements
HIPSS study is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under terms of the cooperative agreement 3U2GGH000372-02 W1 and the US Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).