ACTION TO SUSTAIN PRECISION AND INTEGRATED HIV-RESPONSE TOWARDS EPIDEMIC CONTROL (ASPIRE) PROJECT - INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY NIGERIA (IHVN), A QUALIFIED LOCAL PARTNER, ENGAGED IN PEPFAR IMPLEMENTATION SINCE 2004, PROPOSES THE ASPIRE PROJECT (ACTION TO SUSTAIN PRECISION AND INTEGRATED HIV RESPONSE TOWARDS EPIDEMIC CONTROL) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCIDAR (SUPPORTING PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SECTOR LINKAGE) EHAI (SUPPORTING EQUITY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING) AND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE (SUPPORTING HEALTH INFORMATICS, LABORATORY STRENGTHENING, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT). ASPIRE BUILDS UPON IHVN’S FOUNDATION OF ITS 360 COMPREHENSIVE ART SITES EVIDENCED BY THE 340,127 PLHIV SUSTAINED ON DURABLE ART, OUR 99.4% LINKAGE TO ART, AND 95.4% WITH VIRAL LOAD SUPPRESSION (VLS) WITH AN INTERRUPTION IN TREATMENT RATE OF 1.1% UNDER ITS CURRENT ACHIEVE PROJECT AWARD. LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH THE RIVERS STATE “SURGE” IMPLEMENTATION WHERE TX_CURR WAS SCALED EXPONENTIALLY FROM 21,00 TO 173,392 TO ACHIEV

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ACTION TO SUSTAIN PRECISION AND INTEGRATED HIV-RESPONSE TOWARDS EPIDEMIC CONTROL (ASPIRE) PROJECT - INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY NIGERIA (IHVN), A QUALIFIED LOCAL PARTNER, ENGAGED IN PEPFAR IMPLEMENTATION SINCE 2004, PROPOSES THE ASPIRE PROJECT (ACTION TO SUSTAIN PRECISION AND INTEGRATED HIV RESPONSE TOWARDS EPIDEMIC CONTROL) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCIDAR (SUPPORTING PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SECTOR LINKAGE) EHAI (SUPPORTING EQUITY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING) AND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE (SUPPORTING HEALTH INFORMATICS, LABORATORY STRENGTHENING, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT). ASPIRE BUILDS UPON IHVN’S FOUNDATION OF ITS 360 COMPREHENSIVE ART SITES EVIDENCED BY THE 340,127 PLHIV SUSTAINED ON DURABLE ART, OUR 99.4% LINKAGE TO ART, AND 95.4% WITH VIRAL LOAD SUPPRESSION (VLS) WITH AN INTERRUPTION IN TREATMENT RATE OF 1.1% UNDER ITS CURRENT ACHIEVE PROJECT AWARD. LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH THE RIVERS STATE “SURGE” IMPLEMENTATION WHERE TX_CURR WAS SCALED EXPONENTIALLY FROM 21,00 TO 173,392 TO ACHIEV