Sierra Leone is addressing significant
challenges in HIV data quality, including
issues with data collection, reporting,
timeliness, accuracy, and inconsistency.
To tackle these challenges, the CDC, UNAIDS,
and other partners are supporting the National
AIDS Control Program (NACP) and the Ministry
of Health (MOH) through initiatives such as
updating data collection tools, capacity building
for data management staff, data quality
assessments, and supportive supervision.
A Data Quality Assessment (DQA) funded by
CDC and the Global Fund is currently underway.
UNAIDS is providing technical support in the
planning, field work, analysis, and reporting of the
national DQA. The goal of this DQA is to enhance
the impact of Sierra Leone’s national HIV
program by ensuring the quality of reported data
through standardised, routine monitoring at HIV
service delivery sites.
Key objectives include, assessing the quality of
reported data and comparing it against national data
collection system (DHIS2) numbers; determining the
variance and types of errors between facility records
and DHIS2 reports and identifying data quality
challenges, including systematic issues with indicator
definitions, data recording, and entry among others.
The DQA will validate data from July to September
2024, reported through the DHIS2 platform.
The findings from the DQA will be used to recommend
actions to strengthen data quality, monitoring, and
evaluation systems, ultimately aiming to control the
HIV epidemic more effectively in Sierra Leone.
UNAIDS supports resumption of HIV Data quality improvement efforts in Sierra Leone
