HIVSMART DR NITIKA PANT PAI MD PHD ASSISTANT

HIVSMART! DR NITIKA PANT PAI, MD PHD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MEDICINE MCGILL UNIVERSITY & MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH 1

PROBLE M HIV TESTING IN HEALTH FACILITIES: 50% Globally and 25% locally don’t know their HIV status!!; 34 million infections; 2. 5 million new infections each year; many undiagnosed! o WHY? Barriers to testing: o Stigma and Discrimination o Social Embarrassment and Fear of visibility o Lack of Confidentiality and convenience o Judgemental Attitudes and long wait times 2

NEED a. Confidential, Anonymous, b. Personalized, convenient c. Easy linkages, easy conduct d. Saves time and money

INNOVATION Health Care Professionals An innovative unsupervised selftesting strategy 4

HIVSMART! STRATEGY process awareness conduct personalized engagement Linkages to care © Pant Pai and Mc. Gill University 2013 6

SMARTER CONDUCT; STORAGE; LINKAGE; PERSONALIZATION © Pant Pai and Mc. Gill University 2013 7

HIV SELF-TEST APP: ANDROID, i. PHONE Copyright protected. HIVSmart! is copyright protected authored by Dr Pant Pai and trainees (Roni Deli-Houssein, Sushmita Shivkumar, Caroline Vadnais) and owned by Mc. Gill University 8

ASAP OPEN ACCESS INNOVATION AWARD FOR HIVSmart! WORLD BANK ASAP Sponsors: Google, PLo. S, Wellcome Trust The ASAP Program Sponsors congratulate three ASAP Award Recipients: § Global Collaboration to Fight Malaria § HIV Self-test Empowers Patients § Visualizing Complex Science 9

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grand Challenges Canada’s Star in Global Health Award 2011 ASAP Award for Innovation 2013 Canadian Institutes for Health Research 2010 -present Colleagues: Dr Keertan Dheda, MD Dr Costas Karatzas, Ph. D, RI MUHC Slide credits: Sehar Manji, Executive Assistant Luc Sirois, Manasse, Diane Cote 10

Future plans…. . HIVSMART! Think global, act local! 11