ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2014
Willingness to engage in peer-delivered HIV voluntary counselling and testing among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting.
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- AIDS cases in Ottawa: A review of simultaneous HIV and AIDS diagnoses.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2022Review
- Understanding barriers and facilitators to HIV testing in Canada from 2009-2019: A systematic mixed studies review.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021Article
- Recent HIV testing and associated factors among people who use drugs in Cambodia: a national cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Protective factors associated with short-term cessation of injection drug use among a Canadian cohort of people who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol review · 2016Article
- Impact of length of injecting career on HIV incidence among people who inject drugs.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Uptake of Community-Based Peer Administered HIV Point-of-Care Testing: Findings from the PROUD Study.PloS one · 2016Article
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- Challenges in managing HIV in people who use drugs.Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundPeople who inject drugs (IDU) face unique systemic, social and individual barriers to conventional HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) programmes. Peer-delivered approaches represent a possible alternative to improve rates of testing among this population.
methodsCross-sectional data from a prospective cohort of IDU in Vancouver, Canada, were collected between December 2011 and May 2012. Bivariate statistics and multivariate logistic regression were used to identify the prevalence of and factors associated with willingness to receive peer-delivered VCT.
resultsOf 600 individuals, 51.5% indicated willingness to receive peer-delivered pretest counselling, 40.7% to receive peer-delivered rapid HIV testing and 42.8% to receive peer-delivered post-test counselling. Multivariate analyses found significant positive associations between willingness for pretest counselling and having used Vancouver's supervised injection facility, Insite, or being a member of VANDU (a local drug user organisation) (all p<0.05). Daily crack smoking and having used Insite were positively associated with willingness to receive peer-delivered HIV testing (p<0.05). Willingness to receive peer-delivered post-test counselling was positively associated with male gender, daily crack smoking, having used Insite and being a member of VANDU (p<0.05).
conclusionsWhile not universally acceptable, peer-delivered VCT approaches may improve access to HIV testing among IDU.
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