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HIV testing trend and associated factors among people who inject drugs in Iran (2010–2020) [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background HIV testing is critical for HIV prevention and treatment among PWID and their social networks. This study aimed to examine the trend of HIV testing among PWID in Iran. We also assessed the factors associated with HIV testing in 2020.
Parya Jangipour Afshar, Mohammad Karamouzian, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Mehrdad Khezri, Ali Mirzazadeh, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Mostafa Shokoohi, Soheil Mehmandoost, Nima Ghalekhani, Hossein Mirzaei, Hamid Sharifi   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Efficient Identification of HIV Serodiscordant Couples by Existing HIV Testing Programs in South Brazil. [PDF]

, 2015
ObjectiveTo examine the feasibility of identifying HIV negative at risk individuals in HIV serodiscordant couples, during voluntary HIV testing in South Brazil.MethodsWe surveyed HIV testers at 4 public testing sites in Rio Grande do Sul.
Bisol, Claudia Alquati, da Motta, Leonardo Rapone, Diaz, Ricardo Sobhie, Hecht, Frederick M, Kallas, Esper G, Kato, Sergio Kakuta, Paganella, Machline Paim, Pilcher, Christopher D, Sperhacke, Rosa Dea, Vallabhaneni, Snigdha   +9 more
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Outcomes of a model for re-testing HIV-negative index contacts in Sedibeng, South Africa

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2023
Background: Index contact testing is an HIV case-finding approach that elicits sexual or needle-sharing partners, as well as biological children, of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and offers them HIV testing services.
Ditebogo L. Phiri, Kate Rees, Natasha Davis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV assisted partner services (aPS) to support integrated HIV and hypertension screening in Kenya: a pre-post intervention study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background People living with HIV (PLWH) have a higher risk of developing hypertension compared to HIV uninfected individuals. HIV assisted partner services (aPS), where PLWH are assisted by a healthcare provider to disclose their status to sexual and ...
Beatrice Wamuti, Betsy Sambai, Christine Magambo, Margaret Ndegwa, Paul Macharia, Tecla M.Temu, Carey Farquhar, David Bukusi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives and experiences of Zambian pregnant and postpartum women receiving two intervention models to increase uptake of male partner HIV testing

Global Public Health, 2023
This study explored the experiences of pregnant women who received two intervention models for increasing uptake of male partner HIV testing in antenatal settings.
Oliver Mweemba, Suzanne Maman, Kellie Freeborn, Caroline Hazwela, Aditi Kamat, Andrew Kumwenda, Mildred Lusaka, Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Nachizya Edith Namukanga, Nora E. Rosenberg, Benjamin H. Chi, Wilbroad Mutale   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023
Background. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes an infectious disease that can be transmitted from an infected mother to her child. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs provide a range of services to women and children that ...
Junior Mudji, Victoria Olarewaju, Blaise Madinga, Justice Malala, Auguy Kayeye, Yves Horsmans   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors influencing HIV testing and counselling services among men who have sex with men in Western China: a cross-sectional study based on Andersen’s Behavioral Model

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2022
Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM), as a marginal population, has been largely ignored by health service projects. We assessed the utilization of HIV testing and counselling services and its influencing factors based on Andersen’s Behavioral ...
Bing Lin, Jiaxiu Liu, Yingjie Ma, Xiaoni Zhong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV testing intervention development among men who have sex with men in the developed world [PDF]

, 2017
HIV testing is a ‘gateway’ technology, enabling access to treatment and HIV prevention. Biomedical approaches to prevention, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis and treatment as prevention, require accurate and regular HIV test results.
Burns, Fiona, Estcourt, Claudia, Flowers, Paul, Sonnenberg, Pam   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Has testing been normalized? An analysis of changes in barriers to HIV testing among men who have sex with men between 2000 and 2010 in Scotland, UK [PDF]

, 2012
Objectives: This paper examines changes in barriers to HIV testing amongst gay men. We compared data collected in 2000 and 2010 to assess changes in HIV testing behaviours, in community-level perceptions of barriers to HIV testing, and in the relative ...
Flowers, P., Knussen, C., Li, J., McDaid, L.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The acceptability and perceived use of HIV self-testing among technical vocational education and training students in Limpopo province

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2023
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing (HIVST) is a most recent testing modality to reach young people to test for HIV, due to their increased vulnerability of contracting HIV.
Mimi E. Teffo, Samuel L. Mndzebele, Mathildah M. Mokgatle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source