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Uptake of home-based voluntary HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2012
Improving access to HIV testing is a key priority in scaling up HIV treatment and prevention services. Home-based voluntary counselling and testing (HBT) as an approach to delivering wide-scale HIV testing is explored ...
Fidler Sarah, Van den Bergh, Rafael, Hayes Richard, Ford, Nathan, Ford, N, Kalpana Sabapathy (113708), Nathan Ford, Kalpana Sabapathy, Nathan Ford (59436), Fidler, S, Hayes, Richard, Richard Hayes, Rafael Van den Bergh, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes (32740), Sarah Fidler (76851), Ford Nathan, Sabapathy, Kalpana, Fidler, Sarah, Van den Bergh, R, Sabapathy Kalpana, Rafael Van den Bergh (113711), Van den Bergh Rafael, Sabapathy, K, Hayes, R   +24 more
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Home-based HIV testing for men who have sex with men in China: a novel community-based partnership to complement government programs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The coverage of HIV testing among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) remains low after the scale-up of free HIV testing at government-sponsored testing sites.
Jun Tao, Ming-ying Li, Han-Zhu Qian, Li-Juan Wang, Zheng Zhang, Hai-Feng Ding, Ya-Cheng Ji, Dong-liang Li, Dong Xiao, Melissa Hazlitt, Sten H Vermund, Xiangfei Xiu, Yugang Bao   +12 more
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Todurujo na Kadurok (empowering youth): study protocol of an HIV self-testing and edutainment comic cluster randomised trial among refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Refugees experience HIV vulnerabilities due to the confluence of displacement, violence and poverty. HIV self-testing, understudied with refugees, is a promising method to increase testing uptake, yet challenges remain with linkages to ...
Carmen H Logie, Moses Okumu, Peter Kyambadde, Isha Berry, Lesley Gittings, Miranda G Loutet, Madelaine Coelho, Simon Odong Lukone, Nelson Kisubi, Malon Atama   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid self testing for HIV infection

The Lancet, 1997
A rapid self test could enable even more people to know their HIV status during the early stages of infection; thus they could receive antiretroviral therapy before their illness progressed. Knowledge of HIV status is particularly important for women of childbearing age, who with this knowledge can make reproductive decisions and benefit from ...
M H, Merson, E A, Feldman, R, Bayer, J, Stryker   +3 more
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Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of HIV status is crucial for HIV prevention and management in marital relationships. Yet some marital partners of people living with HIV decline HIV testing despite knowing the HIV-positive status of their partners.
Merten, Sonja, Sonja Merten, Virginia Bond, Bond, Virginia, Maurice Musheke, Musheke, Maurice   +5 more
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Acceptability of HIV self-testing to support pre-exposure prophylaxis among female sex workers in Uganda and Zambia: results from two randomized controlled trials

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective for prevention of HIV acquisition, but requires HIV testing at regular intervals. Female sex workers (FSWs) are a priority population for HIV prevention interventions in many settings ...
Katrina F. Ortblad, Michael M. Chanda, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Thomson Ngabirano, Magdalene Mwale, Aidah Nakitende, Steven Chongo, Nyambe Kamungoma, Catherine Kanchele, Till Bärnighausen, Catherine E. Oldenburg   +10 more
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Effect of facility-based HIV self-testing on uptake of testing among outpatients in Malawi: a cluster-randomised trial

The Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary: Background: HIV self-testing increases testing uptake in sub-Saharan Africa but scale-up is challenging because of resource constraints. We evaluated an HIV self-testing intervention integrated into high-burden outpatient departments in Malawi.
Kathryn Dovel, PhD, Frackson Shaba, MPH, O Agatha Offorjebe, MD, Kelvin Balakasi, BA, Mike Nyirenda, MD, Khumbo Phiri, MPH, Sundeep K Gupta, MD, Vincent Wong, MSc, Chi-Hong Tseng, PhD, Brooke E Nichols, PhD, Refiloe Cele, MSc, Eric Lungu, BA, Tobias Masina, BA, Thomas J Coates, ProfPhD, Risa M Hoffman, MD   +14 more
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HIV Self-testing and the Missing Linkage

PLoS Medicine, 2011
Rochelle Walensky and Ingrid Bassett discuss new research in PLoS Medicine that assessed the feasibility of home-based oral HIV self-testing in Malawi, and suggest that linkage to care must be demonstrated before the success of oral self-testing can be determined.
Rochelle P Walensky, Ingrid V Bassett
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Factors influencing uptake of HIV testing and non-initiation of and attrition from antiretroviral therapy care in Lusaka, Zambia [PDF]

, 2013
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) still remains a global public health burden with an estimated 34 million people living with HIV; 69% of these residing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Musheke, Maurice
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Determinants for HIV testing and counselling in Nairobi urban informal settlements. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Counselling and testing is important in HIV prevention and care. Majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa do not know their HIV status and are therefore unable to take steps to prevent infection or take up life prolonging anti-retroviral ...
Matilu, Mwau, Abdhalah K Ziraba, Oti Samuel, Mgomella George, Madise Nyovani J, Alex Ezeh, Kimani, James K, Oti, Samuel, Ziraba, Abdhalah K, Matilu Mwau, Mwau Matilu, Madise, Nyovani J, Ziraba Abdhalah K, George Mgomella, Samuel Oti, Ezeh, Alex, Ezeh Alex, Nyovani J Madise, Kimani James K, Mgomella, George, James K Kimani   +20 more
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