LINKAGES will proactively employ data quality assurance methods, including training, joint supportive supervision, mentorship and quarterly routine data quality assessment to continually assess, support the generation of, and improve data quality. Training and/or technical assistance will be provided on data collection, aggregation, reporting and quality control among all staff involved in routine data collection. The training will include implementing partners and health care workers at ART referral sites, M&E and program staff, as well as peer educators and navigators in use of monitoring and reporting tools, and reporting, and to facilitate supervised self-testing and provide direct referrals and clinic escorting for service-users who test
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Is oral HIV self-testing increase in access to and uptake of HIV testing service among FSW and MSM?
2. Is there increase in yield among HIV tested FSW and MSM with HIV self-testing kit?
3. Is there increasing the linkage to care and treatment services among FSW and MSM who had HIV self-testing and tested positives?
4. Is there an improvement in policy environment, and programming for HIV self-testing in Kenya, Malawi and Swaziland at end of the pilot project?
The routine oral HIV self- testing project monitoring data will be used to answer the above learning questions at all levels. The HIV cascade data from LINKAGES project before January 2017 will be used as baseline for oral HIV self-testing project. LINKAGES country and HQ teams will regularly analyze the project secondary data and compare the HIV cascade performance before and after the introduction of oral HIV self-testing project. LINKAGES will conduct a formative assessment with government (especially the Ministries of Health), key population groups and individuals before implementation of the project to explore the best strategies and demand generation approaches for community-based self-testing and strategies for engaging KPs who test positive with a self-test. Moreover, a formative assessment will be conducted at the end of the pilot project in order to assess an improvement in policy environment, and programming for HIV self-testing in Kenya, Malawi and
Is oral HIV self-testing increase in access to and uptake of HIV testing service among FSW and MSM?
2. Is there increase in yield among HIV tested FSW and MSM with HIV self-testing kit?
3. Is there increasing the linkage to care and treatment services among FSW and MSM who had HIV self-testing and tested positives?
4. Is there an improvement in policy environment, and programming for HIV self-testing in Kenya, Malawi and Swaziland at end of the pilot project?
The routine oral HIV self- testing project monitoring data will be used to answer the above learning questions at all levels. The HIV cascade data from LINKAGES project before January 2017 will be used as baseline for oral HIV self-testing project. LINKAGES country and HQ teams will regularly analyze the project secondary data and compare the HIV cascade performance before and after the introduction of oral HIV self-testing project. LINKAGES will conduct a formative assessment with government (especially the Ministries of Health), key population groups and individuals before implementation of the project to explore the best strategies and demand generation approaches for community-based self-testing and strategies for engaging KPs who test positive with a self-test. Moreover, a formative assessment will be conducted at the end of the pilot project in order to assess an improvement in policy environment, and programming for HIV self-testing in Kenya, Malawi and