Offering ART refill through community health workers versus clinic-based follow-up after home-based same-day ART initiation in rural Lesotho: The VIBRA cluster-randomized clinical trial.

Offering ART refill through community health workers versus clinic-based follow-up after home-based same-day ART initiation in rural Lesotho: The VIBRA cluster-randomized clinical trial.

<h4>Background</h4>Community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) dispensing by lay workers is an important differentiated service delivery model in sub-Sahara Africa. However, patients new in care are generally excluded from such models. Home-based same-day ART initiation is becoming wide...

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Main Authors: Alain Amstutz, Thabo Ishmael Lejone, Lefu Khesa, Mathebe Kopo, Mpho Kao, Josephine Muhairwe, Moniek Bresser, Fabian Räber, Thomas Klimkait, Manuel Battegay, Tracy Renée Glass, Niklaus Daniel Labhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003839

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003839

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