Recommendations for collection and integration of community-based testing and linkage to care data into national surveillance, monitoring and evaluation systems for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections: results from the INTEGRATE Joint Action.
Laura Fernández-LópezIrena KlavsAnna ConwayTanja KustecMojca SerdtSladjana BarosDanica Valkovičová StanekováLiis LemsaluIwona WawerPiotr WysockiJordi CasabonaPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2021)
Integration of some community-based voluntary counselling and testing monitoring and evaluation data into national surveillance and monitoring and evaluation systems in all pilot countries was achieved. The recommendations will support such integration in other European countries. European Centre for Prevention and Control of Diseases included questions from the minimum list of indicators into their Dublin Declaration questionnaire 2020 to contribute to evidence based community testing policies in European countries.
Keyphrases
- public health
- quality improvement
- healthcare
- hiv testing
- electronic health record
- mental health
- hiv infected
- clinical practice
- palliative care
- sars cov
- hepatitis c virus
- big data
- antiretroviral therapy
- clinical trial
- randomized controlled trial
- hiv positive
- hiv aids
- genome wide
- south africa
- cross sectional
- psychometric properties