In an interview with a public health officer at Kemri Victor Omollo, he told The Standard that intensive interviews with PrEP users and providers were conducted in order to get views for effective delivery of the pre-exposure drugs. Omollo said a pilot study was done after the affirmative work to pilot and test the developed pathway whose success shall be determined between December and January.
Citing an example, he said if one visited a pharmacy to purchase HIV risk-indicative items, they were engaged and informed about prevention options on PrEP. Further, if one was found eligible and interested, the service provider could continue with counselling and give all the information about PrEP.
He further said the program had a remote clinician to offer oversight in the case of any technicalities or concerns by the private pharmacists.
"The remote clinicians were providing guidance on how the pharmacy provider is supposed to go about a particular client or concern," said Omollo.
According to Kemri study coordinator for HIV performance Benn Kwach, the idea of PrEP delivery and how people can best access the product was conceived in 2020. It is through the idea that the question of HIV self-testing came about while measuring the performance of HIV self-kits (HIVST).
The overall objective of this study was to measure the performance of BB HIVST in retail pharmacies to support its use as a diagnostic tool in the communities the PrEP was delivered, including pharmacy-based PrEP delivery.
Kemri approached 20 pharmacies within Kisumu to measure the performance of the kits around the region.
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