Retain6 Resources
For reports and presentations from November 2023 Retain6 workshops in South Africa and Zambia, click here.
For posters and presentations from AIDS 2024 (July, Munich, Germany), click here.
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- Integration of HIV and non-HIV care
- Risk triaging
- Patterns of engagement in care
- Client preferences
- Naive v non-naive ART initiators
- Models of service delivery
- Retain6 project descriptions
Integration of HIV and non-HIV care
Sande L, Mariet B, Tcherini T, Kamanga A, Ntjikelane V, Morgan A, et al. Facility-level integration of hypertension and diabetes services with HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia. medRxiv 2024. https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.07.10.24310225v1.
Risk triaging
Maskew M, Smith S, De Voux L, Sharpey-Schafer K, Crompton T, Govender A, Pisa P, Rosen S. Triaging clients at risk of disengagement from HIV care: Application of a predictive model to 1 clinical trial data in South Africa. medRxiv 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.05.24311488.
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.
Retain6 risk triaging workshop report April 18, 2023.
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 goals. PLOS 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;
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.
The first six months of HIV treatment: clinic visit schedule and dispensing intervals at Zambian clinics. Retain6 Policy Brief, May 31, 2022.