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“Meet people where they are”: a qualitative study of community barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and HIV self-testing among African Americans in urban and rural areas in North Carolina

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background HIV testing programs in the United States aim to reach ethnic minority populations who experience high incidence of HIV, yet 40% of African Americans have never been tested for HIV.
Allison Mathews, Samantha Farley, Donaldson F. Conserve, Kimberly Knight, Alston Le’Marus, Meredith Blumberg, Stuart Rennie, Joseph Tucker   +7 more
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HIV Stigma and Missed Medications in HIV-Positive People in Five African Countries. [PDF]

, 2009
The availability of antiretroviral medications has transformed living with HIV infection into a manageable chronic illness, and high levels of adherence are necessary. Stigma has been identified as one reason for missing medication doses.
Dlamini, Priscilla S., Mullan, Joseph, Holzemer, William L., Kohi, Thecla W, Chirwa, M., Wantland, Dean, Makoae, L.N, Naidoo, J., Makoae, Lucy N., Dlamini, Priscilla S, Makoae, Lucy N, Dlamini, P.S, Holzemer, W.L, Uys, L.R, Wantland, D., Greeff, M., Chirwa, Maureen, Mullan, J., Kohi, Thecla W., Naidoo, Joanne, Uys, Leana R, Holzemer, William L, Greeff, Minrie, Uys, Leana R., Kohi, T.W   +24 more
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Men’s comfort in distributing or receiving HIV self-test kits from close male social network members in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: baseline results from the STEP project

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background A variety of strategies have been used to reach men with HIV self-testing services, including social network-based HIV self-test kits distribution. However, few studies have assessed men’s comfort to distribute to or receive HIV self-test kits
Joseph K. B. Matovu, Gaspar Mbita, Akeen Hamilton, Frank Mhando, Wynton M. Sims, Noah Thompson, Albert N. Komba, Jackson Lija, Jiajia Zhang, Thomas van den Akker, Dustin T. Duncan, Augustine T. Choko, Donaldson F. Conserve   +12 more
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Repeat HIV testing practices in the era of HIV self-testing among adults in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Repeat HIV testing is important in high HIV burden communities to enable sustainability of prevention initiatives; however, an understanding of repeat testing practices is limited.
Charlene Harichund, Pinky Kunene, Sinenhlanhla Simelane, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Mosa Moshabela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing key issues in HIV self-test program implementation for Black and Latino sexual minority men in the Southern United States: a multiphase study protocol

Implementation Science Communications, 2023
Background Black and Latino sexual minority men in the Southern United States have the highest HIV infection rates in the country. Increased HIV testing can help decrease onward HIV transmission through detecting previously undiagnosed infections.
John Guigayoma, Sara J. Becker, Jason J. Ong, Mariano Kanamori, DeMarc Hickson, Lori M. Ward, Katie B. Biello, Tyler Wray   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community-Based Interventions as Opportunities to Increase HIV Self-Testing and Linkage to Care Among Men Who Have Sex With Men – Lessons From Ghana, West Africa

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
MSM in Ghana encounter challenges in accessing HIV services and may experience barriers to HIV self-testing due to multiple forms of stigma present in health care settings.
Gamji M'Rabiu Abubakari, DeAnne Turner, Zhao Ni, Donaldson F. Conserve, Debbie Dada, Amma Otchere, Yaw Amanfoh, Francis Boakye, Kwasi Torpey, LaRon E. Nelson, LaRon E. Nelson, LaRon E. Nelson   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiences using and organizing HIV self-testing [PDF]

AIDS, 2018
HIV self-testing (HIVST) is now officially recommended by the WHO, yet much of HIVST evidence to date has focused on quantitative data and hypothetical concerns. Effective scale-up of HIVST in diverse local contexts requires qualitative data from experiences using and organizing HIVST.
Yilu, Qin, Larry, Han, Andrew, Babbitt, Jennifer S, Walker, Fengying, Liu, Harsha, Thirumurthy, Weiming, Tang, Joseph D, Tucker   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Universal testing and treatment as an HIV prevention strategy: research questions and methods. [PDF]

, 2011
Achieving high coverage of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in resource-poor settings will become increasingly difficult unless HIV incidence can be reduced substantially.
Sarah Fidler, Kalpana Sabapathy, Sabapathy, Kalpana, Hayes, Richard, Fidler, Sarah, Richard Hayes   +5 more
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HIV self-testing in Singapore is safe, feasible and acceptable: Results from a pilot implementation project

Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
The Joint United Nations Programme on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (UNAIDS) has set an ambitious goal to end AIDS by 2030 by achieving the 95-95-95 testing and treatment targets by 2025, where 95% of all ...
Chen Seong Wong, Koon Wee Benson Yeo, Sally Low, Fikri Alkhatib, Felicia Huimei Hong, Chiaw Yee Choy, Sophia Archuleta   +6 more
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Direct provision versus facility collection of HIV self-tests among female sex workers in Uganda: A cluster-randomized controlled health systems trial.

PLoS Medicine, 2017
BackgroundHIV self-testing allows HIV testing at any place and time and without health workers. HIV self-testing may thus be particularly useful for female sex workers (FSWs), who should test frequently but face stigma and financial and time barriers ...
Katrina Ortblad, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Thomson Ngabirano, Aidah Nakitende, Jonathan Magoola, Prossy Kayiira, Geoffrey Taasi, Leah G Barresi, Jessica E Haberer, Margaret A McConnell, Catherine E Oldenburg, Till Bärnighausen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source