| dc.description.abstract | The burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) response in resource-poor countries is
extensive, and a large proportion of HIV patients rely on accessing health care services in rural
and underserved areas that do not have the capacity or capability to determine CD4 cell counts
and viral loads for monitoring HIV disease progression (Mwamburi, Ghosh, Fauntleroy,
Gorbach, & Wanke, 2005).
In rural Uganda, return of viral load test results from ministry of health (MoH) for persons living
with HIV is after 2 weeks, and these tests are usually done annually. This leaves progression to
symptoms (“2. 9 History of viral load tests | Training manual | HIV i-Base,” n.d.) as the only
indicator for failure to Viral Load Suppression (VLS) during the lag between collecting samples
and return of test results. Therefore, models to predict VLS and to minimize the lag between
sample collection and return of results are needed in rural Uganda. | en_US |
