Retain6 Resources

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  • Risk triaging
  • Patterns of engagement in care
  • Client preferences
  • Naive v non-naive ART initiators
  • Models of service delivery
  • Retain6 project descriptions

For reports and presentations from November 2023 Retain6 workshops in South Africa and Zambia, click here.

Risk triaging

Maskew M, Sharpey-Schafer K, De Voux L, Crompton T, Bor J, Rennick M, Chirowodza A, Miot J, Molefi S, Onaga C, Majuba P, Sanne I, Pisa P. Applying machine learning and predictive modeling to retention and viral suppression in South African HIV treatment cohorts. Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 26;12(1):12715. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16062-0. PMID: 35882962; PMCID: PMC9325703.

Maskew M, Sande LA, Benade M Ntjikelane V, Scott N, Rosen S. Implementation of risk triaging in primary healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.

Evaluating the effect of dynamic changes in risk profile on subsequent interruption in HIV treatment: A threshold approach to risk triaging. IMPACT 2023.

Retain6 risk triaging workshop report April 18, 2023.

Protocol: Implementation of risk triaging in primary healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review

Patterns of engagement in care

Maskew M, Benade M, Huber A, Pascoe S, Sande L, Rosen S. Patterns of engagement in care during clients first 12 months after HIV treatment initiation in South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis using routinely collected data. PLOS Global Public Health 2024; 4: e0002956.

Patterns of retention in care during clients’ first 12 months after HIV treatment initiation in South Africa. Retain6 Policy Brief, June 8, 2023.

Ehrenkranz P, Rosen S, Boulle A, Eaton J, Fox MP, Ford N, Grimsrud A, Rice BD, Sikazwe I, Holmes C. The revolving door of HIV care: Revising the care cascade to achieve the 95-95-95 goalsPLOS Med 2021; 18: e1003651.

Client preferences

Mutanda N, Morgan A, Kamanga A, Sande L, Ntjikelane V, Maskew M, Haimbe P, Lumano-Mulenga P, Rosen S, Scott N. Experiences and preferences in Zambia and South Africa for delivery of HIV treatment during a client’s first six months: a cross-sectional survey. Preprint.

Maskew M, Ntjikelane V, Juntenen A, Scott N, Benade M, Sande L, Haweeka P, Haimbe P, Lumano-Mulenga P, Shakewelele H, Mukumbwa-Mwenechanya M, Rosen S. Preferences for services in a patient’s first six months on antiretroviral therapy for HIV in South Africa and Zambia (PREFER): research protocol for a prospective observational cohort study. Gates Open Research 2023, 7:119.

Naive v non-naive ART initiators

Benade M, Maskew M, Juntunen A, Rosen S. Prior exposure to antiretroviral therapy among adult patients presenting for HIV treatment initiation or re-initiation in sub- Saharan Africa: a systematic review. BMJ Open 2023;

Prior exposure to antiretroviral therapy among adult patients presenting for HIV treatment initiation or re-initiation in sub- Saharan Africa: a systematic review. SA AIDS 2023.

Protocol: Prior exposure to antiretroviral therapy among adult patients presenting for HIV treatment initiation or re-initiation in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review

Models of service delivery

Allison Morgan, Sydney Rosen, David Flynn, Mariet Benade, Linda Sande. Who does tracing work for? Characteristics of clients successfully re-engaged in ART care in sub-Saharan Africa after a tracing intervention: a systematic review. PROSPERO 2024, CRD42024534323. 

Rosen S, Grimsrud A, Katz I, Ehrenkranz P. Models of service delivery for optimizing a patient’s first six months on ART: an applied research agenda. Gates Open Res 2020, 4:116.

Retain6 project descriptions

Project proposal

Project summary