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Partner services as targeted HIV screening--changing the paradigm.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Risk-Based Screening Tools to Optimise HIV Testing Services: a Systematic Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Pooled it
- Improving HIV test uptake and case finding with assisted partner notification services.AIDS (London, England) · 2017Pooled it
- Predictive Models to Identify Factors Associated with a High One-Time Sexual Partnership Rate Among U.S. Men Who Have Sex with Men.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Establishing Best Practices in a Response to an HIV Cluster: An Example From a Surge Response in West Virginia.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Contact Tracing Outcomes in Washington State, August and October 2020.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Ending the HIV Epidemic: Contributions Resulting From Syphilis Partner Services.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2020Article
- Time to HIV testing of sexual contacts identified by HIV-positive index clients in Siaya County, Kenya.PloS one · 2020Article
- Partner Notification for Youth Living With HIV in 14 Cities in the United States.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Article
- Assisted partner services for HIV case-finding.The lancet. HIV · 2017Article
- Partner Services in Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Programs: A Review.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2016Review
- Program collaboration and service integration in the prevention and control of HIV infection, viral hepatitis, STDs, and tuberculosis in the U.S.: lessons learned from the field.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
- HIV Testing and Positivity Patterns of Partners of HIV-Diagnosed People in Partner Services Programs, United States, 2013-2014.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) has the goal of offering HIV partner services (PS) to all individuals newly diagnosed with HIV in San Francisco. However, measuring the potential impact of these services is challenging. Building on an existing syphilis partner notification program, we developed a framework for expanding and monitoring HIV PS in San Francisco.
methodsWe identified process and outcome measures to evaluate HIV PS in San Francisco, including the number of index patients interviewed, the proportion of named partners who had previously diagnosed HIV infection, the proportion of HIV-uninfected partners who tested through HIV PS, and the positivity rate among the partners tested. Results were recorded in a locally developed electronic surveillance and case-management system at SFDPH.
resultsWe examined HIV PS data from 2005-2011. In 2011, 426 new HIV diagnoses were reported, and 178 were assigned for HIV PS; of these, 124 (69.7%) patients were successfully interviewed, naming a total of 109 sex partners. Of the named partners, 34 (31.2%) had been previously diagnosed with HIV. Among the remaining named partners not known to be HIV infected, 31 (32.3%) were tested, for a positivity of 22.6% (n=7). The proportion of HIV that was newly diagnosed by a provider who participated in the citywide HIV PS program increased from 15.4% in 2005 to 69.5% in 2011.
conclusionsAs HIV PS expand, locally relevant outcome measures are increasingly important. Using these criteria, HIV PS as a targeted screening activity resulted in the identification of newly diagnosed HIV cases.
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