Using a Programme Science approach to substantially reduce the risk of HIV transmission and acquisition in sex transactions among female sex workers in Zimbabwe.
Frances Mary CowanSithembile MusemburiPrimrose MatambanadzoPhillip ChidaRichard SteenRumbidzo MakandwaSungai T ChabataAlbert TakuraAmber SheetsRaymond YekeyeOwen MugurungiBernadette HensenJoanna BuszaJames R HargreavesPublished in: Journal of the International AIDS Society (2024)
Optimizing and sustaining HIV care and treatment programmes requires effective delivery with sufficient scale and intensity for population impact. Our programme science approach guided the scale up of the KP programme in Zimbabwe, providing evidence to support strategy, implementation and ongoing management, and importantly helping us distinguish between when we needed to just implement, implement better or implement differently.