Principaux résultats attendus:
1) An eHealth application and data system is developed, validated by a clinical team, integrated and operational.
2) Community lay health workers provide effective community based integrated NCD care in coordination with health facility staff.
3) Clinical facility staff effectively provide integrated NCD care.
4) Cluster-randomized trial and sub-studies have been successfully set up, carried out and completed.
5) Additional NCDs are integrated in ComBaCaL in line with national priorities and a roll-out plan is developed.
6) Capacity building in Health and IT achieved.
Community lay health workers generate personal income through an established social enterprise.
Principaux résultats antérieurs:
The research consortium funded in 2015 has received an r4d[1]open call grant for a research project that assessed community based HIV testing and start of antiretroviral treatment. The results of this successful trial were published in important scientific journals and influenced HIV guidelines in Lesotho, at the World Health Organization and in the USA.
[1]R4d is a research programme 2012-2022 co-funded by the SDC and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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