Misreporting of Patient Outcomes in the South African National HIV Treatment Database: Consequences for Programme Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Main Authors: David Etoori (Author), Alison Wringe (Author), Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula (Author), Jenny Renju (Author), Brian Rice (Author), F. Xavier Gomez-Olive (Author), Georges Reniers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Monitoring progress toward global treatment targets using HIV programme data in sub-Saharan Africa has proved challenging. Constraints in routine data collection and reporting can lead to biased estimates of treatment outcomes. In 2010, South Africa introduced an electronic patient monit...