GET ON project: HOSENG trial - Home-based oral self-testing for absent and declining individuals during a door-to-door HIV testing campaign in rural Lesotho: The HOSENG cluster-randomised trial

Background

In sub-Saharan Africa, home-based HIV testing is validated and accepted, but coverage is low because household members are often absent during home-based testing campaigns. We aimed to measure the effect of secondary distribution of oral-fluid HIV self-tests during home-based testing in…

01.12.2017 - 31.12.2021
Clinical Trial, PhD project
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Programme r4d , Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Career Eccellenza , Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Career MD-PhD programme , International AIDS Society (IAS) / Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER)
Clinical Research Unit
Tracy Glass
GET ON project: VIBRA trial - Effect of Offering ART refill through community health workers versus clinic-based follow-up after home-based same-day ART initiation in rural Lesotho: The VIBRA cluster-randomized clinical trial

Background

Community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) dispensing by lay workers is an important differentiated service delivery model in sub-Sahara Africa. However, patients new in care are generally excluded from such models. Home-based same-day ART initiation is becoming widespread practice, but…

01.12.2017 - 31.12.2021
Clinical Trial, PhD project
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Programme r4d , Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Career Eccellenza , Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Career MD-PhD programme
Clinical Research Unit
Tracy Glass
Improving the HIV care cascade in Lesotho: Towards 90-90-90 - A research collaboration with the Ministry of Health

 

Background

Despite enormous progress in the last decade, HIV/AIDS remains the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries of Southern Africa and a central contributor to economic underdevelopment and poverty in many societies. The 2014 UNAIDS “90-90-90” targets for 2020…

01.02.2016 - 31.01.2019
Clinical Trial
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Programme r4d
CDCI - Chronic Disease Clinic Project, Ifakara

Background
Many challenges remain concerning the HIV epidemic in Tanzania. There is a clear need of improvement of human and physical infrastructure to allow for better quality patient care, as well as evidence based strategies tailored to the local priorities. 

Aims
The Chronic Diseases Clinic…

01.10.2004 - 01.01.2018
Research project
Swiss TPH