ArticleAIDS and behavior2013
Should home-based HIV testing and counseling services be offered periodically in programs of ARV treatment as prevention? A case study in Likoma (Malawi).
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- Costs of HIV testing services in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence for community-based HIV testing on men's engagement in the HIV care cascade.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2022Pooled it
- Towards universal voluntary HIV testing and counselling: a systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based approaches.PLoS medicine · 2013Pooled it
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- Brief counselling after home-based HIV counselling and testing strongly increases linkage to care: a cluster-randomized trial in Uganda.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Trial
- Reaching Absent and Refusing Individuals During Home-Based HIV Testing Through Self-Testing-at What Cost?Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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- Optimal timing of HIV home-based counselling and testing rounds in Western Kenya.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2018Article
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- A new approach to measuring partnership concurrency and its association with HIV risk in couples.AIDS and behavior · 2014Article
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- Cohort Profile: The Likoma Network Study (LNS).International journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
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To reduce HIV incidence, prevention programs centered on the use of antiretrovirals require scaling-up HIV testing and counseling (HTC). Home-based HTC services (HBHTC) increase HTC coverage, but HBHTC has only been evaluated during one-off campaigns. Two years after an initial HBHTC campaign ("round 1"), we conducted another HBHTC campaign ("round 2") in Likoma (Malawi). HBHTC participation increased during round 2 among women (from 74 to 83%, P < 0.01). New HBHTC clients were recruited, especially at ages 25 and older. Only 6.9% of women but 15.9% of men remained unreached by HBHTC after round 2. HIV prevalence during round 2 was low among clients who were HIV-negative during round 1 (0.7%), but high among women who received their first ever HIV test during round 2 (42.8%). The costs per newly diagnosed infection increased significantly during round 2. Periodically conducting HBHTC campaigns can further increase HTC, but supplementary interventions to enroll individuals not reached by HBHTC are needed.
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