Integration of community-based testing data into national HIV surveillance in Poland, Serbia and Slovakia within the framework of INTEGRATE project
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Fernandez-Lopez, L, Baros, S, Niedzwiedzka-Stadnik, M, Stanekova, DV, Rosinska, M, Simic, D, Jovanoic, V, Habekova, M, Takacova, M, Wawer, I, Wysocki, P, Conway, A, Klavs, I and Casabona, J
Publicada:
13 sep 2021
Ahead of Print:
13 sep 2021
Resumen:
Background Community-based voluntary counselling and testing contributes to early HIV diagnoses among key populations. Testing data from such decentralized services is however often not standardized nor linked to national surveillance systems. This study aimed to support the integration of community testing data into respective national surveillance and monitoring and evaluation systems for those infections. We present results from three national pilots, focused on improved data collection and transfer. Methods Within the Joint Action INTEGRATE different pilot activities were planned and implemented according to the local context. In Slovakia, standardised data collection tools were implemented in three community testing services. The data generated was used to calculate the proposed indicators. In Poland, positive test results from the community testing database were linked to the national case-based surveillance database using confirmatory test number, to improve the completeness of behavioural data in the national database. In Serbia, voluntary counselling and testing forms were improved enabling identification of community-based testing. A system to generate unique client identifiers was initiated in the National registry of HIV cases to monitor linkage to care. Results All three sites were able to estimate most of the agreed indicators. In Slovakia during the study period 675 people were tested for HIV, 410 for hepatitis C and 457 for syphilis, with reactivity rates of 0.4, 2.5 and 1.8%, respectively. For HIV, 66.7% of reactive cases were confirmed and linked to care. In Poland, 28.9% of the community testing sites' records were linked to the national surveillance database (and accounted for 14.3% of all new diagnoses registered here during 2017-2018). Reactivity rate ranged between 1.9% and 2.1%. In Serbia, 80 persons were tested at community sites, from which two had a reactive HIV test result. By linking unique client identifiers from voluntary counselling and testing and National Registry of HIV cases databases, linkage to care within a two-month period was observed for one of two people with reactive HIV test result. Conclusions Pilot activities in the three countries demonstrate that integration of community-based testing data into surveillance systems is feasible and can help improve national surveillance data by providing key information.
Filiaciones:
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Generalitat Catalunya, Ctr Epidemiol Studies HIV AIDS & STI Catalonia CE, Hlth Dept, Badalona, Spain
Inst Hlth Sci Res Germans Trias & Pujol IGTP, Badalona, Spain
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
Baros, S:
Dr Milan Jovanov Batur, Inst Publ Hlth Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Niedzwiedzka-Stadnik, M:
Natl Inst Hyg NIPH NIH, Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Warsaw, Poland
Stanekova, DV:
Slovak Med Univ, NRC HIV AIDS Prevent, Bratislava, Slovakia
Rosinska, M:
Natl Inst Hyg NIPH NIH, Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Warsaw, Poland
Simic, D:
Dr Milan Jovanov Batur, Inst Publ Hlth Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Jovanoic, V:
Dr Milan Jovanov Batur, Inst Publ Hlth Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Habekova, M:
Slovak Med Univ, NRC HIV AIDS Prevent, Bratislava, Slovakia
Takacova, M:
Slovak Med Univ, NRC HIV AIDS Prevent, Bratislava, Slovakia
Wawer, I:
Minist Hlth, Natl AIDS Ctr NAC, Warsaw, Poland
Wysocki, P:
Minist Hlth, Natl AIDS Ctr NAC, Warsaw, Poland
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Generalitat Catalunya, Ctr Epidemiol Studies HIV AIDS & STI Catalonia CE, Hlth Dept, Badalona, Spain
Inst Hlth Sci Res Germans Trias & Pujol IGTP, Badalona, Spain
Klavs, I:
Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Generalitat Catalunya, Ctr Epidemiol Studies HIV AIDS & STI Catalonia CE, Hlth Dept, Badalona, Spain
Inst Hlth Sci Res Germans Trias & Pujol IGTP, Badalona, Spain
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Paediat Obstet & Gynecol & Prevent Med, Badalona, Spain
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