Ruth McDowall/FlickrFifty-nine percent of adults started ART on the same day as HIV diagnosis, and 78% within seven days following a national intervention to improve rapid ART initiation in Botswana, researchers from the Botswana-University of Maryland School of Medicine reported in the journal AIDS.
Strategies deployed during the programme included recruiting, training, and assigning facility health workers and peers as ‘fast-track champions’, extension of clinic hours, making medication starter packs available, and co-ordinating ART linkage between facilities and communities.
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Source : Aidsmap
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