A Randomized Trail of Home or Facility-Based AIDS Care

Grosskurth, Heiner

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDS and Tb Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Type: Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
• Project #: 5U01PS000065-02
• Application #: 6946887
• Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel (ZPS1-SRC (99))
• Program Officer: Sandul, Amy
• Project Start: 2004-09-01
• Project End: 2010-03-31
• Budget Start: 2006-04-01
• Budget End: 2007-03-31
• Support Year: 2
• Fiscal Year: 2006
• Total Cost: $600,000

Institution

• Name: Uganda Virus Research Institute
• DUNS #: 552658304
• City: Entebbe
• Country: Uganda

Publications

Lugada, Eric; Levin, Jonathan; Abang, Betty et al. (2010) Comparison of home and clinic-based HIV testing among household members of persons taking antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: results from a randomized trial. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 55:245-52

Jaffar, Shabbar; Amuron, Barbara; Foster, Susan et al. (2009) Rates of virological failure in patients treated in a home-based versus a facility-based HIV-care model in Jinja, southeast Uganda: a cluster-randomised equivalence trial. Lancet 374:2080-9

Amuron, Barbara; Namara, Geoffrey; Birungi, Josephine et al. (2009) Mortality and loss-to-follow-up during the pre-treatment period in an antiretroviral therapy programme under normal health service conditions in Uganda. BMC Public Health 9:290

Wolff, Brent; Mbonye, Martin; Coutinho, Aartin et al. (2009) High levels of psychosocial readiness for ART in an African population at the onset of treatment. SAHARA J 6:188-94