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Project Summary
The UCL role is to use the Synthesis model to address two main aims:
(i) estimate the epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of community-based HIV self-testing in different sub-populations and across scenarios characterized by different adult HIV prevalence and antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa;
(ii) assess impact and cost-effectiveness of two HIV self-testing secondary distribution modalities: through women attending antenatal clinics and through female sex workers to their male partners.
Key Project Information
Dates: 2015-2020
Status: Current
UCL lead/Principal Investigator: Dr Valentina Cambiano (UCL lead); Liz Corbett (LSHTM), Karin Hatzold (PSI)
Lead organisation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM; Research); Population Services international (Implementation)
Partners: Population Services International; World Health Organization; Clinton Health Access Initiative; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme; Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research Zimbabwe (CeSHHAR-Zimbabwe); Zambart; Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. ); Society for Family Health (SFH); Malawi Ministry of Health (MoH); Zambia MoH, Zimbabwe MoH, Lesotho MoH, South Africa MoH, Eswatini MoH
Location: Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, South Africa, Eswatini
Funding: Unitaid
Contact: v.cambiano@ucl.ac.uk
Website: www.hivstar.lshtm.ac.uk/
- Research Team
Prof Liz Corbett, Karin Hatzold, Prof Frances M Cowan, Augustine Choko, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Hendy Maheswaran, Cheryl C Johnson, Euphemia L Sibanda, Getrude Ncube, Paul Revill, Rachel C Baggaley, Prof Andrew Phillips, Linda Sande, Loveleen Bansi-Matharu