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METS program with funding PEPFAR/Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has supported the Ministry of Health/CPHL to scale up viral load (VL) monitoring to over 80% of the PLHIVs on ART between 2016 and 2017 with the use of a VL dashboard, support for curriculum development, capacity building trainings, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.   Introduction:Read more

In the past decade or so, Uganda has benefited from Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) support from Global Health Actors such as the Global fund to fight TB, HIV and Malaria; PEPFAR, WHO, UNAIDS, Roll back Malaria; to mention but a few. These actors have provided HSS support of varying nature and to-date, we have diverseRead more

A team from METS travelled to Malawi to attend and participate in the international implementers’ conference that took place on 12th December 2017 in Lilongwe at the Bingu International Conference Centre. The three-day conference that was hosted by the Ministry of Health Malawi was themed “eHealth to promote evidence based health service delivery and interoperability”. ThisRead more

Introduction Numerous PrEP Clinical trials have shown that oral antiretroviral (ARVs) containing tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) or tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDf/FTC) used by HIV-negative individuals to prevent HIV acquisition, called oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), are safe and effective in several populations. Prior modeling work suggests that oral PrEP is most cost-effective when targeted to populations at highRead more