Chorongo Salee

Chorongo Salee started a discussion "Operations Research Around the Introduction of Antiretrovirals in the Management of HIV-infected Individuals in Mombasa, Kenya: Project Overview and Findings" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Sophie Let me have a look in depth at the report before i reply but for one the reports does talk about the adherence % of patient on DAART what about the other (NON-DAART) on standard arm.

Chorongo Salee started a discussion "Explaining Adherence Success in Sub-Saharan Africa" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Nice to here that adherence was 90% in Tanzania Nigeria and Uganda my idear is why dont you also get the findings of Adherence study done in Kenya on ARVS in 2003-2006 and compare your findings i can link you with the study coordinator mr paul munyao

Chorongo Salee replied to "Handling of ARVs in DOT-HAART" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi stuart what a wonderful programme you are implementing .i did lead a team of community health workers in a operational research on adherence here at coast province general hospital mombasa kenya sponsored by population councill what i discovered is patient on arvs were happy to see they were visited at home and pill counts done to accertain level of adherence another thing is that chws should also be trained on confidentiality for the programme ...

Chorongo Salee replied to "New Sudan Education Initiative" in the Adherence & Retention community.

hi kaitlyn regarding your new programmee in yei sudan i will propose to you better the rwanda model which is putting the suppervision of payment to chws themself this is similar to what we have here in kenya pathfinder in collabboration with KREP BANK initiated the programme in 2004 and they left in 2006 in our region but because of members were taking the leading role repayment and sustainability was good up to now i ...

Chorongo Salee replied to "To count lost to-follow-up (LTFU) as part of adherence denominator?" in the Adherence & Retention community.

My experience in the adherence study in mombasa has it that LTFU has no clear definition but my opinion is that it should be classified into two division whenever you refer to it and this are 1) Service provider driven ie logistics in availing medication 2) Patient driven ie personal reasons for not adherering to medication incase there are other arms you are using to evaluate your treatment programme i will be happy to here ...