Date & time: 15th of September 12:00-13:00 BST
Webinar now available on our Youtube Channel, or see below.
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This is the second webinar part of the MeSH Webinar Series: Strengthening Routine HIV Data – A Female Researcher’s Perspective. Through a series of webinars running from August to November, discover the perspective and work of brilliant women in the HIV field. They will discuss their contributions to strengthening the understanding, collection, analysis, and use of routine HIV data towards the aim of accelerating and tracking HIV decline in sub-Saharan Africa. Each webinar will be a live with 20-30 minutes of presentation, followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience. Make sure to follow MeSH on twitter and the website for the next series events.
This webinar is presented by Ndeshi Conteh and Susie Welty from the University of Carolina, San Francisco.
As Namibia aspires to reach the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, surveillance data for persons with newly acquired HIV infections is used to help the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) attain this epidemic control. The data allows the MOHSS to monitor and characterize active networks of transmission in order to implement prevention interventions efficiently, and to improve the quality of the HIV program. In 2019, a time-space cluster investigation was conducted using data from a Recent Infection Surveillance System in 5 districts in Namibia. The presenters will speak to a) the use of recency data in the context of this cluster investigation, and b) how data from the cluster investigation has been used to improve the national HIV program on index partner testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), ART retention, and cross-border challenges with transmission and linkage to care.
Ndeshi Conteh currently works as a Clinical Surveillance Specialist at the Namibia Global Programs for Research & Training, University of California, San Francisco. She is also currently pursuing a PHD of Public Health with the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Ndeshi has a solid background in the coordination and management of health programs, with a strong emphasis on monitoring and evaluation, reporting, research, training and quality assurance.
Susie Welty is the Senior Program Manager for Tanzania projects in Global Strategic Information, University of California, San Francisco. She has been involved in integrated bio-behavioural surveillance surveys, antiretroviral outcomes studies, triangulation projects, data quality assessments, M&E assessments, the development of a master’s program in Health Monitoring and Evaluation, and the development of a national M&E plan for Tanzania.
