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Differentiated care is increasingly recognized as an essential approach to further scaling up access to HIV treatment an
CALL FOR

JIAS SUPPLEMENT: DIFFERENTIATED CARE AND HIV

ABSTRACTS

DEADLINE: 27 MAY 2016

Call For Abstracts This is a call for abstracts proposing research articles for a special issue of the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) on “Differentiated Care and HIV” to be published in 2017. Differentiated care is increasingly recognized as an essential approach to further scaling up access to HIV treatment and care services. It aims to increase health system capacity and efficiency by tailoring services according to the needs of different patient groups, including fast-track clinic services for patients presenting with advanced disease or failing treatment, and less frequent clinic contact, including community-based services, for those who are stable on ART. The editors invite submissions on any aspect of the theme of differentiated care across the HIV cascade. Papers reporting original research are especially sought, and commentaries, reviews, and other discursive articles will also be considered for the special issue (see Submissions below for further details).

Guest Editors: Dr Ruanne Barnabas Assistant Professor Department of Global Health University of Washington Dr Peter Ehrenkranz Senior Program Officer HIV Treatment, Global Development Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Dr Nathan Ford Treatment and Care Unit HIV/AIDS Department World Health Organization Dr Anna Grimsrud Programme Specialist HIV Programmes and Advocacy International AIDS Society

Background The role of differentiated care in achieving the ambitious 90-90-90 targets is receiving increased attention from global agencies, funders, implementers and Ministries of Health. Despite the interest in differentiated care, the publications on the topic are largely limited to those models for stable patients and from a few author groups. Differentiated care applies across the HIV cascade and includes models across clinical groups (e.g. unstable patients), contexts (including low prevalence settings and conflict settings), and populations (e.g. men, children and adolescents, key populations, etc.). The new WHO guidelines highlight a differentiated care framework recommending that the service frequency, health worker cadre, service location and service intensity vary across countries and populations. New guidelines support less frequent clinical visits and medication pick-ups and further task shifting. However, the evidence is variable in quality and scope. This special issue of JIAS seeks to expand the evidence base on differentiated care and HIV to better enable Ministries of Health, funders, policymakers and implementers to develop HIV policies and implementation plans based on the most current evidence base. Submissions The scope of this call is global and we strongly encourage submissions from researchers in low- and middle-income countries. All article categories will be considered with a particular emphasis placed on operational research and implementation science in low- and middle-income countries. Submission topics may include but are not limited to:

• Descriptions and evaluations of:



o Differentiated models across the HIV cascade (seeking, testing and linkage, ART initiation,



ART delivery)



o Differentiated models beyond HIV that are integrated with other diseases



o Differentiated models for other clinical populations beyond stable patients, including newly



initiated on ART and unstable patients o Differentiated models for all populations including: children, adolescents, young adults, older



adults, men, young key populations and key populations o Differentiated models across contexts including: generalized, concentrated and low-level



epidemic settings, low-burden settings, conflict and unstable settings.



• Cost-effectiveness and efficiency analyses describing the resources required for these models,



• Qualitative data from patients and civil society on their needs and expectations for service delivery,



• Policy reviews, both from high-income and low-and middle-income settings,



• Methodological issues in evaluating differentiated care,



• Cross-cutting issues including supply chain management, access to routine viral load monitoring,



monitoring & evaluation, and PreP.

Submission Process Initial contributions should be in the form of an abstract in English outlining the main arguments or findings of the proposed paper. Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words and conform to the journal style and format (see Instructions for Authors). Abstracts should be emailed to [email protected] with the subject line (DIFFERENTIATED CARE JIAS). The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 27, 2016. The abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors and shortlisted for the Special Issue. Authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be notified by June 15, 2016. The authors of shortlisted abstracts will be invited to prepare articles based on the journal guidelines for submission to Journal of the International AIDS Society. The deadline for submission of full articles is 8 November, 2016. Only invited articles will be considered for the issue, although invitation to submit an article is not a guarantee of publication. All editorial decisions regarding publication in the Journal will be based on the outcome of peer review. As an Open Access Journal, there is normally a fee associated with publication of articles, which may apply in the case of this Special Issue. However, authors of accepted publications can motivate to the editors of the Special Issue for the fee to be waived. Abstracts and final manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter referring to this special issue. For questions about this supplement, please contact Anna Grimsrud at [email protected].