Modeling the HIV cascade of care using routinely collected clinical data to guide programmatic interventions and policy decisions
Giorgos Bakoyannis,
Batya Elul,
Kara K. Wools-Kaloustian
et al.
Abstract:Background:
The HIV care cascade is a framework to examine effectiveness of HIV programs and progress toward global targets to end the epidemic but has been conceptualized as a unidirectional process that ignores cyclical care patterns. We present a dynamic cascade that accounts for patient “churn” and apply novel analytic techniques to readily available clinical data to robustly estimate program outcomes and efficiently assess progress toward global targets.
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