Table 2 Specific aims, the indicators that could be already assessed before the pilot, the indicators specifically addressed in the pilot and CBVCT services participating in each pilot

Slovakia

To implement standardised data collection tools in the CBVCT services, as most of them are not using a questionnaire

For HIV, Syphilis and HCV:

Number of testsReactivity rate of tests

For HIV, Syphilis and HCV:

Number of clients tested

Reactivity rate of clients

For HIV:

Proportion of clients with a positive result linked to care

3 out of 4

Poland

Linkage of positive test results from community testing database to the national casebased surveillance database using confirmatory test number

To include testing for Syphilis and HCV in the electronic data collection system for CBVCT services

For HIV:

Number of tests

Reactivity rate of tests

For HIV:

Proportion of clients with a positive result linked to care

30 out of 30 form the national VCT network

(There are a few more testing sites for PWID, operated by harm reduction centres)

Serbia

Improvement of voluntary counselling and testing forms to enable identification of communitybased testing

use of unique client identifier to monitor linkage to care

For HIV:

Number of tests

Reactivity rate of test

(both indicators had to be obtained by manual counting)

Number of clients tested

Reactivity rate of clients

(for both indicators data was available but never used at national level)

For HIV:

Number of tests

Number of clients tested

Reactivity rate of clients

Proportion of clients with a positive result linked to care

Proportion of clients who reported to have been previously tested

Proportion of clients who reported to have been tested during preceding 12 months

Proportion of clients tested at specific venues: office, outreach, self sampling,…

2 out of 7

(at mid 2019 there were 7 CBVCT services, but the this number is not fixed, with tendency to increase)