Last updated : May, 2017

TECHNICAL TEAM

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Lead analyst

Somya Gupta, MA

Based in New Delhi, Somya Gupta has been working in public health for various international organizations (IAPAC, WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, MSF) for more than four years. She specializes in policy research on the importance of access to HIV treatment for all. She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. Over the past four years, she has researched and built the HIV policy data base and has led analytic efforts.

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Project lead

Reuben Granich, MD, MPH

Independent Public Health Consultant

Dr. Granich has over 20 years experience in health and development, working for national, state and local governments, the UN system, and in private sector health care. His interest and work on HIV began in 1988 in San Francisco and has included addressing HIV and TB in the United States and over 25 low and middle income countries. He now works as an independent public health consultant providing strategic support to a diverse set of clients including PEPFAR, Dure Technology, universities, ministries of health and community groups.

Web design

Dure Technologies

Dure Technologies is an innovative software solution and service provider for Public Health and Social Development sectors, with extensive experience in engaging with multilateral partners and organizations, working with global, national and sub-national programs and data. The Global ART Policy Watch portal has been developed leveraging Dure Technologies’ data visualization platform – iViZard – and it has been designed and implemented by a multinational team based in Switzerland and India.

From 2010 to the present, using the Internet we identified 109 national care continua that represented 94% of the 2015 global estimate of people living with HIV. We update the search on a quarterly basis and also incorporate newly published continuum as they become available in the public domain (please send and/or see the website submission tab if you have a new public domain continuum to bring to our attention).

We reviewed the methodology for collecting data on or estimating the following four key steps in the treatment cascade: 1. Estimated number of people living with HIV, 2. Estimated number of people living with HIV diagnosed as HIV-positive, 3. Estimated number of people living with HIV receiving ART, and 4. Estimated number of people living with HIV with suppressed or undetectable viral load.