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The uptake and accuracy of oral kits for HIV self-testing in high HIV prevalence setting: a cross-sectional feasibility study in Blantyre, Malawi. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Although HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake has increased dramatically in Africa, facility-based services are unlikely to ever meet ongoing need to the full.
Choko, Augustine Talumba, Webb, Emily L, Makombe Simon D., Squire, S Bertel, Gaydos Charlotte A., Emily L. Webb, Desmond Nicola, French Neil, Choko Augustine Talumba, Augustine Talumba Choko, Neil French, Mwapasa, Victor, Charlotte A. Gaydos, French, Neil, Corbett, Elizabeth L., Chavula, Kondwani, Elizabeth L Corbett, Treza Chunda, Sue Napierala-Mavedzenge, Squire S. Bertel, Charlotte A Gaydos, Gaydos, Charlotte A, Nicola Desmond, Choko, Augustine, Emily L Webb, Webb Emily L., Chunda, Treza, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Corbett, Elizabeth L, Gaydos, Charlotte A., Chunda Treza, Chavula Kondwani, Simon D. Makombe, Squire, Bertie, Kondwani Chavula, Mwapasa Victor, Webb, Emily L., Napierala-Mavedzenge, Sue, Makombe, Simon D., Makombe, Simon D, S. Bertel Squire, Corbett Elizabeth L., Victor Mwapasa, S Bertel Squire, Desmond, Nicola, Simon D Makombe, Napierala-Mavedzenge Sue   +46 more
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Quality improvement report: Investigating barriers in HIV testing oncology patients to optimize HIV testing practice. [PDF]

HIV Med
In 2010, we observed missed opportunities for earlier human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnosis among people newly diagnosed with HIV attending our service. We reached out to clinical services with low HIV testing rates. In the oncology service,
Darling KEA, Damas J, Frei AL, Frega S, Meyer ML, Peters S, Cavassini M, Nguyen-Ngoc T.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Geographical variation in HIV testing in South Africa: Evidence from the 2017 national household HIV survey

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2021
Background: Identification of the geographical areas with low uptake of HIV testing could assist in spatial targeting of interventions to improve the uptake of HIV testing.
Sean Jooste, Musawenkosi Mabaso, Myra Taylor, Alicia North, Yolande Shean, Leickness C. Simbayi, Tarylee Reddy, Leonard Mwandingi, Tenielle Schmidt, Portia Nevhungoni, Samuel Manda, Khangelani Zuma   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early infant diagnosis of HIV infection at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Monrovia, Liberia

HIV Research & Clinical Practice, 2022
Background: Vertical transmission accounts for majority of new HIV infections among children worldwide. Ninety percent of HIV-positive children reside in Sub- Saharan Africa with their infection predominantly acquired via vertical transmission.
Umar I. U, M. A. Adeiza, R. C. Ideh, O. Ogbuagu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do accurate HIV and antiretroviral therapy knowledge, and previous testing experiences increase the uptake of HIV voluntary counselling and testing? Results from a cohort study in rural Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Despite the introduction of free antiretroviral therapy (ART), the use of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services remains persistently low in many African countries.
Zaba, B, Manyalla, R, Urassa, M, Cawley, Caoimhe, Wringe, A, Isingo, R, Caoimhe Cawley, South, A, Todd, Jim, Urassa, Mark, Isingo, Raphael, Wringe, Alison, Alison Wringe, Mark Urassa, Zaba, Basia, Yusufu Kumogola, Raphael Isingo, Rose Manyalla, Annabelle South, Manyalla, Rose, South, Annabelle, Kumogola, Yusufu, Cawley, C, Basia Zaba, Kumogola, Y, Jim Todd, Todd, J   +26 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
doaj   +1 more source

Underlying reasons why some people haven’t tested for HIV – a discourse analysis of qualitative data from Cape Town, South Africa

SAHARA-J, 2021
Reported barriers to HIV testing over the last 15 years have remained consistent, despite improved service offerings. We aimed to probe deeper by exploring how people who have never tested construct HIV testing in their talk.
Kyla Meyerson, Graeme Hoddinott, Tamryn Nicholson, Sue-Ann Meehan   +3 more
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Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and use of mandatory premarital HIV testing as a prerequisite for marriages among religious leaders in Sokoto, North Western Nigeria

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2012
INTRODUCTION: In Sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 1.8 million became infected with the HIV in 2009 and Nigeria currently has about 3.4 million people living with HIV.
Sambo Adamu Umar, Oche Mansur Oche
doaj   +1 more source

Social behaviors and HIV risk factors among men in Chad and Cameroon

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021
INTRODUCTION: The neighboring Republics of Chad and Cameroon have respectively one of the lowest and highest HIV prevalence rates in central Africa at 1.3% and 4.5%, respectively.
Bonheur Dounebaine, Kate Winskell
doaj   +1 more source

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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