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senior managers. The ecological correlation of the GEMS members on ART and their
membership options indicate that we have most of our professionals on ART followed by
middle to senior management categories on ART pre-ART and MTCPT and PEP
programmes.
Table 5: GEMS member on ART, PreART, MTCT and PEP according to benefit options.
Percentage of members registering directly on the Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART)
programme. Source: Government Employee Medical Aid Scheme.
The table 6 below shows the proportion of members who joined the HIV DMP and registered
directly in the ART programme. These members would have had a CD4 count less than 350
at enrolment.
Table 6: Table indication increase in treatment coverage in the first two years on NSP
implementation.
Source: GEMS Annual HIV&AIDS Preliminary Report.
A significant achievement in year two of the NSP implementation phase as observed from
table 7 below is that late enrolment has been decreasing since January 2013.This reflects
pro-activity on the part of the programme with regard to early testing and early enrolment as
promoted through the HCT campaign.
Table7: Significant decrease in the percentage of GEMS members with late enrolment of
CD4 count below 200/mm3. Source: GEMS.
Furthermore, government has recorded significant progress in dealing with HIV&AIDS as
result of the HCT campaign as reflected in the number of people on pre-ART who are
initiating treatment. This increase has been significant during this reporting period.
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