Work package | Key populations | Indextesting | Couponssurvey | Cost study | Modelling |
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Delivery channels | FSW, MSM, PWuID | Index testing (partners ofPLHIV) | All | All | All |
Study populations | Key actors, Community members, HIVST users | PLHIV andpartners, Health workers | HIVST users | Dispensing sites, Dispensing agents | – |
SO1 Identify the social, cultural and organisational factorsfacilitating and limiting the primary and secondary distributionof HIVST kits and their use by the different actors involved. | ✓ | ✓ | |||
SO2 Define the socio-behavioural profile and HIV testinghistory of HIVST users and their care pathway in the eventof a reactive test. | ✓ | ✓ | |||
SO3 Analyse the positive and negative social and healthconsequences of the introduction of HIVST for individuals,communities and the health system. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
SO4 Estimate the incremental costs of dispensing HIVSTkits per dispensing channel. | ✓ | ||||
SO5 Model the epidemiological impacts of the ATLASprogramme and different scale-up scenarios on epidemicdynamics. | ✓ | ✓ | |||
SO6 Estimate the cost-effectiveness and the medium-and long-term budgetary impact of different scaling strategies. | ✓ | ✓ |