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4D ATA I N C ONTEXTANC Sentinel Surveillance 4HIV sentinel surveillance is carried out at sites throughout <strong>Kenya</strong> using unlinked anonymous HIVtesting of leftover blood samples routinely collected for other purposes. Sentinel surveillancedata are used to track trends in HIV prevalence in specific populations over time and to identifydisparities in infection. One of the populations surveyed is women aged 15-49 years attendingANC for the first time during their current pregnancy. ANC clinic attendees are believed torepresent healthy, sexually active women of reproductive age and represent a proxy for thegeneral population. In 2005, approximately 12,800 women were sampled from 43 sites over athree-month period for ANC surveillance.<strong>National</strong> ANC sentinel surveillance reports show that HIV prevalence among pregnant womenaged 15-49 years decreased from 9.4% in 2003 to 6.9% in 2006. ANC sentinel surveillance isone of several sources of national HIV data. Because it uses anonymous testing, it is free fromparticipation and self-reporting biases. As the proportion of women who are tested in ANC risesand gets closer to 100%, however, the need for anonymous testing decreases because thepopulation being tested routinely for clinical purposes approximates the population that wouldhave been tested anonymously.In a few countries, such as Botswana and Thailand, anonymous testing has been dropped fromANC sentinel surveillance, and data from routine clinical testing are being used. In <strong>Kenya</strong>, wheremore than 90% of young pregnant women (aged 25-29 years) came to ANC for care in <strong>2007</strong> and80% were offered testing, ANC sentinel surveillance will soon be able to transition fromanonymous surveys to reportable, routine testing to gather HIV surveillance data amongpregnant women.Please refer to the “Data in Context” section in Chapter 3 for more on ANC sentinel surveillanceand alternate approaches to national HIV surveillance.4NASCOP, Sentinel Surveillance of HIV and STDs in <strong>Kenya</strong> Report, 2006.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 145

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