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ArticleInternational journal of health promotion and education2013

Missed Opportunities for Early HIV diagnosis: Critical Insights from Stories of Kenyan Women Living with HIV.

Peninnah M Kako, Patricia E Stevens, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Jennifer Kibicho, Anna K Karani, Anne Dressel

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Article in International journal of health promotion and education, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Peninnah M KakoCollege of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
Patricia E Stevens
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
Jennifer Kibicho
Anna K Karani
Anne Dressel
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee · USMedical College of Wisconsin · USUniversity of Nairobi · KE

Funding

Health needs of HIV-infected women in KenyaF31NR009628 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE · PI KAKO, PENINNAH M · 2006 to 2006
$32k
NINR NIH HHS F31 NR009628
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early HIV testing is critical to prevention and timely treatment. Missed opportunities for HIV diagnosis can result in unnecessary deaths at a time when access to antiretroviral treatment proves life saving. While HIV prevention and treatment research has increased, less research exists on women's experiences with HIV diagnosis, despite the fact that women are most affected. Insights from local women are critical in designing culturally meaningful interventions that thwart missed opportunities for early HIV diagnosis. The purpose of our study was to uncover steps women took to know their HIV diagnosis. Using narrative inquiry methodology informed by post-colonial feminism, we interviewed 40 HIV- positive women in Kenya. Five themes emerged related to uptake of HIV testing for women: (a) spouse's critical illness or death; (b) years of suffering from HIV-related symptoms; (c) sick children; (d) prenatal testing; and (e) personal desire to know one's HIV status. These findings centered on women experiences provide an important basis for health promotion interventions related to HIV prevention, earlier detection, and treatment.

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early HIV diagnosisHIV-positive womenKenyamissed opportunitiesqualitative study

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PMID24273455
PMCPMC3833759
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