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ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar

Past project

ACCESS Myanmar will implement and evaluate an electronic health records data linkage system that effectively monitors the progress of patients through HIV testing and treatment episodes of care across a network of partnering community and government services.

Objective 

Myanmar has the fourth highest number of people living with HIV in south-east Asia: around 227,000 people. Most cases belong to vulnerable populations of people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men and female sex workers. The Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports has prioritised HIV as a key public health issue, and is orchestrating responses and collaborations. This includes ACCESS Myanmar, established in a surveillance network of testing and treatment sites in Yangon’s southern districts.

Timeline

2018–2023.

Approach

ACCESS Myanmar will extract service-level patient data and link patient service access using anonymous patient codes generated on site using GRHANITE™ software installed at partnering services.

ACCESS Myanmar will enable the anonymous tracking of patients’ progress through the HIV cascade of care, including their repeated access to diagnostic testing and, for those diagnosed, attendance for follow-up care, anti-retroviral treatment (ART), and HIV viral suppression.

Community impact

ACCESS Myanmar will contribute to the national and state-specific HIV response. Site specific reports will be used to identify areas for service improvements, while systems-level data will describe key HIV cascade of care indicators and estimates of HIV incidence in line with national HIV strategic priorities.

By anonymously linking patients between and within services and over time, ACCESS offers an exciting potential as a research and evaluation platform to inform national strategic and disease elimination strategy.

Partners

Funding partners

  • Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP)
  • DFAT

Collaborators

  • National AIDS Program (NAP)
  • Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)
  • Pyi Gyi Khin
  • UNION
  • Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
  • Global Fund

Project contacts

Professor Mark A  Stoové

Professor Mark A Stoové

Head of Public Health
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Project team

Jason Asselin

Jason Asselin

Co-Head, Surveillance and Data Linkage group
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Leila Bell

Leila Bell

PhD student
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Professor Margaret Hellard AM

Professor Margaret Hellard AM

Deputy Director, Programs; Adjunct Professor, Monash University, DEPM.
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Dr Hla Htay

Dr Hla Htay

Senior Technical Manager
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Ye Min Latt

Ye Min Latt

Senior Data Officer
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Dr Phone Myint Win

Dr Phone Myint Win

Country Representative, Myanmar
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Dr Thi Nguyen

Dr Thi Nguyen

Data Scientist
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Long Nguyen

Long Nguyen

Data Manager
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Dr Daniel  O'Keefe

Dr Daniel O'Keefe

Senior Project Officer
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Dr Victoria Polkinghorne

Dr Victoria Polkinghorne

Data programmer
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Professor Mark A  Stoové

Professor Mark A Stoové

Head of Public Health
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Nyssa Watson

Nyssa Watson

Research Officer
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