ArticleJournal of community health2014
Facilitators and barriers related to voluntary counseling and testing for HIV among young adults in Bo, Sierra Leone.
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- Determinants of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Service Uptake Among Adult Sub-Saharan Africans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Public health reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Geographic variations and determinants of ever-tested for HIV among women aged 15-49 in Sierra Leone: a spatial and multi-level analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Spatial distribution and factors associated with HIV testing among adolescent girls and young women in Sierra Leone.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Workplace factors associated with willingness to undergo human immunodeficiency virus testing during workplace health checkups.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Influence and involvement of support people in adolescent and young adult HIV testing.AIDS care · 2019Article
- Assessing linkage to and retention in care among HIV patients in Uganda and identifying opportunities for health systems strengthening: a descriptive study.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Screening for HIV and linkage to care in adolescents: insights from a systematic review of recent interventions in high- versus low- and middle-income settings.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2018Review
- Prevalence of markers of HIV infection among febrile adults and children in Bo, Sierra Leone, 2012-2013.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- 'I will choose when to test, where I want to test': investigating young people's preferences for HIV self-testing in Malawi and Zimbabwe.AIDS (London, England) · 2017Article
- HIV testing and attitudes among the working-age population of Japan: annual health checkups may offer an effective way forwards.Industrial health · 2016Article
- Barriers to HIV Testing Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM): Experiences from Clark County, Nevada.Global journal of health science · 2015Article
- Factors Associated with HIV Prevalence and HIV Testing in Sierra Leone: Findings from the 2008 Demographic Health Survey.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
In 2012, we interviewed a population-based sample of 285 young adult residents (age 18-35 years) of the city of Bo, Sierra Leone, about their attitudes toward and experience with voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) for HIV. In total, 33% of the participants (44% of women and 25% of men) reported having been tested for HIV at least once. More than 85% of those not previously tested indicated a willingness to be tested in the near future, but untested participants were nearly twice as likely as tested participants to report fears about family/partner rejection, job loss, and other potential consequences of testing. More than 90% of participants expressed a high desire for testing privacy, and the majority reported a preference for VCT at a facility far from home where no one would know them. Social barriers to HIV testing remain a challenge for HIV prevention in Sierra Leone.
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