RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

As the COVID-19 pandemic abated in 2022, the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE²RO) continued to expand its research and evaluation projects in South Africa and its neighbouring countries.

A follow on to the AMBIT (Alternative Models of ART Delivery) study was awarded, along with a supplementary budget to augment the AMBIT 2.0 study which is running in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia. Under this project implementation of the multi-country SENTINEL protocol began at 42 sentinel sites across these countries. 2022 also saw the start of the 3-year EXPAND (Evaluating the Cost of Scaling PrEP Access through Novel Delivery) study which is an economic evaluation of 3 pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation projects in South Africa.