Using a HIV registry to develop accurate estimates for the HIV care cascade – the Singapore experience

Achieving UNAIDS 90‐90‐90 targets is a crucial step towards ending the AIDS epidemic. Many countries have published estimates of care cascades, although often with methodological limitations. We describe an approach that used the national HIV registry as a starting‐point to determine the HIV care cascade and resulting UNAIDS 90‐90‐90 estimates for Singapore in 2014.

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