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To support The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’s focus on sustainable control of the HIV epidemic, use of information from HIV case –based surveillance would provide a better understanding of epidemic trends over time, identify epidemic hotspots, and identify sub-populations at high risk of infection, among others; in a timely manner.
The documentation that follows below refers to use of HIV patient-level data from openMRS, an electronic medical record, for HIV case-based surveillance. The case reporting module in openMRS represents the case-based surveillance component of the system. Screenshots have been provided to illustrate a test patient’s HIV progression along the care cascade by generating the relevant case reports for each sentinel event being monitored.
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