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Lesotho Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment : LePHIA 2016-2017 : summary sheet: preliminary findings
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November 2017
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Description:The Lesotho Population-Based HIV impact assessment (LePhia), a household-based national survey, was conducted between November 2016 and May 2017 in order to measure the status of Lesotho’s national HIV response. LePhia offered HIV counseling and testing with return of results, and collected information about uptake of HIV care and treatment services. This survey was designed to measure HIV incidence, prevalence, and viral load suppression in the population 15 to 59 years of age and prevalence in the population 0 to 14 years of age. The results provide information on national and subnational progress toward control of the HIV epidemic.
This project has been supported by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFaR) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the terms of cooperative agreement #U2GGh001226. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the funding agencies.
LePhia was led by the Government of Lesotho throu gh the Ministry of health, conducted with funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for aiDS Relief (PEPFaR) and technical assistance through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The survey was implemented by iCaP at Columbia University in collaboration with the Lesotho Bureau of Statistics.
Lesotho-Summary-Sheet_A4.v18.pdf
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