Summary & Key Points
"The RaDAR Project (Catch-up Strategies for HIV Screening in Children and Adolescents in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo: The Role of Community Associations)"
The RaDAR project (Catch-up strategies for HIV testing in children and adolescents in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo: the role of community associations. The main objective of RaDAR is to evaluate the implementation in terms of feasibility, acceptability, and efficiency of a community-based associative intervention to catch up on missed opportunities for pediatric HIV testing (0-15 years) with referral of cases to HIV care in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo.
As part of the effective launch of the RaDAR project activities, the PAC-CI PROGRAM has conducted a mission from July 17 to 21 at the SAS Center facilities, located in Côte d'Ivoire, specifically in Bouaké. This mission enabled the following:
Training the team on data collection tools (CRF and data collection procedures)
Providing tablets for data collection
To date, the RaDAR project has registered 34 children, 14 eligible for testing and 14 included with consent. These preliminary figures are encouraging and demonstrate the commitment and willingness of the team to achieve the expected objectives.
