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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
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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
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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 ...
AM Molesworth, AT Choko, B Wolff, C Michelo, DF Stroup, E Lugada, E Tumwesigye, EJ Mills, EL Corbett, F Nuwaha, F Obare, FG Felley, G Rucker, H Maheswaran, I Ganguli, J Negin, J Wachira, JK Matovu, JK Matovu, JK Matovu, JM Turan, JN Sekandi, K Kranzer, Kalpana Sabapathy, KL Grabbe, KM De Cock, M Freeman, M May, M Sweat, N Angotti, N Menzies, Nathan Ford, O Shisana, P Braitstein, P Cherutich, P Macpherson, R Hayes, Rafael Van den Bergh, RC Vreeman, Richard Hayes, RM Granich, RP Walensky, S Helleringer, S Kimaiyo, Sarah Fidler, Stephanie L. Sansom, T Welz, V Ochieng-Ooko, W Mutale, W Were, WA Were   +50 more
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Exploring people’s candidacy for mobile health–supported HIV testing and care services in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: qualitative study [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: The use of mobile communication technologies (mHealth: mobile health) in chronic disease management has grown significantly over the years. mHealth interventions have the potential to decentralize access to health care and make it convenient,
Adeagbo, Oluwafemi, Blandford, Ann, Estcourt, Claudia, Herbst, Carina, McKendry, Rachel, Seeley, Janet, Shahmanesh, Maryam   +6 more
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Private healthcare sector doctors and HIV testing practices in the eThekwini Metro of KwaZulu-Natal

South African Family Practice, 2011
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing has many logistic and ethical challenges. The UNAIDS/WHO policy statement states that the testing of individuals must be confidential, be accompanied by counselling, and be conducted with informed ...
P. Naidoo
doaj   +1 more source

Taking HIV testing to families: designing a family-based intervention to facilitate HIV testing, disclosure and intergenerational communication [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: Facility-based HIV testing does not capture many adults and children who are at risk of HIV in South Africa. This underscores the need to provide targeted, age-appropriate HIV testing for children, adolescents and adults who are not ...
Bland, Ruth, Celum, Connie, Essack, Zaynab, Knight, Lucia, Rochat, Tamsen, van Rooyen, Heidi, Wight, Daniel   +6 more
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Barriers to accessibility and utilization of HIV testing and counseling services in Tanzania: experience from Angaza Zaidi programme

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: while HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services remain to be amongst the effective strategies in slowing HIV transmission, its accessibility and uptake in Tanzania is low.
Alfred Meremo, Beati Mboya, David Ngilangwa, Robert Dulle, Edith Tarimo, David Urassa, Emillian Michael, Nyasiro Gibore, Bonaventura Mpondo, Gabriel Mchonde, Alex Ernest, Rita Noronha, Festus Ilako   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digitally supported HIV self-testing increases facility-based HIV testing capacity in Ekurhuleni, South Africa

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2022
Background: HIV testing is the first step for linkage to HIV prevention or treatment services. Facility-based HIV testing is the most utilised method, but faces challenges such as limited work space and human resources.
Nolundi T. Mshweshwe-Pakela, Tonderai Mabuto, Luke Shankland, Alex Fischer, Dikeledi Tsukudu, Christopher J. Hoffmann   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE ROLE AND OBJECTIVES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES DUE TO GENDER- AND AGERELATED FEATURES OF HIV INFECTION IN TAJIKISTAN

Паёми Сино, 2019
Objective: Proposing an effective measures of counteraction to HIV infection due to its gender-age characteristics in Tajikistan Methods: A comparative analysis of official quantitative statistics on HIV infection by the Ministry of Health and Social ...
D.A. KADYROVA, S.S. KARIMOV, N.A. ABDUKHAMEDOV   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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