The study is a sub-agreement between ICAP at Columbia University and IHVN to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health (MOH) to establish a Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE) program.
The study is a sub-agreement between ICAP at Columbia University and IHVN to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health (MOH) to establish a Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE) program. The ICAP/IHVN TRACE program will monitor HIV epidemic trends, inform rapid programmatic responses at state, local and individual levels in FCT and Rivers State, and accelerate progress towards HIV epidemic control. The project will scale up the use of rapid recency assays at HIV testing sites. It will build data systems to capture recency data to characterize emerging hotspots and help target prevention interventions.
IHVN and ICAP will work as partners in the implementation of recency testing in select 15 health facilities sites in FCT and 31 in Rivers States in Nigeria. This is to involve conducting trainings for TRACE protocol procedures, ensuring laboratory quality control and successful data capture, reporting and monitoring of key recency indicators, and using data to inform program response.
Study Principal Investigator is Dr. Anthony Okwuosah.