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Guidance on program data

This should be data sourced from national testing programs (both public and private sectors testing should be included). The number of HIV tests should refer to the number of tests whose results were provided back to clients (column "tot"). If the same person is tested twice during the year, it should be counted as contributing two tests.

Among the total number of tests, the number of tests that are found to be HIV positive should be entered in the column "totpos" (count a person as testing positive once even if up to 3 different assays are performed to confirm an HIV-positive diagnosis according to the national testing algorithm). For each year provide either sex aggregated data (1 row with both sex combined; sex = "both") or sex disaggregated data (2 rows with sex="male" and sex="female", respectively). This should be for age-group 15-99 only.

This needs to be a data-frame with the following columns. If these columns names are wrong the model will either not run, or the results will not be accurate.

  • country: Must match exactly the value extracted from your Spectrum file:
 pjnz <- "~/path/to/yourfile.PJNZ"
 country <- read_country(pjnz)
  • year: Calendar year in which the HIV tests were performed.
  • sex: For each year EITHER provide disaggregated values for "male" and "female", or an aggregated value for "both"
  • agegr: This should be "15-99" for all rows.
  • tot: This is the annual number of tests performed at the national level among the population aged 15+ years of age. This number should be equal to the total number of tests administered as part of HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC) and during antenatal care (ANC), and for which the clients received the results.
  • totpos: Out of the total annual number of tests, how many were found to be HIV positive. This number should be equal to the number of positive tests found during HTC (in non-pregnant population) and during ANC among pregnant women.
  • vct: Total annual number of tests performed in the population aged 15+ years outside of ANC services, and for which clients received the results. If only the overall total is available, please input NA.
  • vctpos: Annual number of tests that were found to be positive for HIV outside of ANC services. If only the overall total number of positive tests performed is available, please input NA.
  • anc: Annual number of pregnant women tested for HIV (and that received their results) as part of ANC services.
  • ancpos: Annual number of pregnant women found to be HIV positive during ANC services. If only the overall total number of positive tests performed is available, please input NA.