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Knowing is not enough: a qualitative report on HIV testing among heterosexual African-American men.
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- Real Talk: Conversations on HIV with Black Heterosexual Men in Healthcare Settings.Journal of community health · 2025Article
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- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in HIV Testing in People Who Use Drugs Admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2022Article
- Nonuptake of HIV Testing Among Transgender Populations in the United States: Results from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey.Transgender health · 2022Article
- Non-uptake of HIV testing among trans men and trans women: cross-sectional study of client records from 2017 to 2019 in a community-based transgender health center in Metro Manila, Philippines.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- How to Safeguard University Students Against HIV Transmission? Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in Southern Italy.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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- "I went in there, had a bit of an issue with those folks": everyday challenges of heterosexual African, Caribbean and black (ACB) men in accessing HIV/AIDS services in London, Ontario.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Utilizing Policy and Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Modifications to Implement and Sustain Routine Opt-Out HIV Screening and Linkage to Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of healthcare, science and the humanities · 2021Article
- "Meet people where they are": a qualitative study of community barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and HIV self-testing among African Americans in urban and rural areas in North Carolina.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Opportunities and barriers for providing HIV testing through community health centers in mainland China: a nationwide cross-sectional survey.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Algorithmic prediction of HIV status using nation-wide electronic registry data.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
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- Barriers and Facilitators toward HIV Testing and Health Perceptions among African-American Men Who Have Sex with Women at a South Side Chicago Community Health Center: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
Despite having higher rates of HIV testing than all other racial groups, African-Americans continue to be disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in the United States. Knowing one's status is the key step to maintaining behavioral changes that could stop the spread of the virus, yet little is known about the individual- and socio-structural-level barriers associated with HIV testing and communication among heterosexual African-American men. To address this and inform the development of an HIV prevention behavioral intervention for heterosexual African-American men, we conducted computerized, structured interviews with 61 men, focus group interviews with 25 men in 5 different groups, and in-depth qualitative interviews with 30 men living in high HIV prevalence neighborhoods in New York City. Results revealed that HIV testing was frequent among the participants. Even with high rates of testing, the men in the study had low levels of HIV knowledge; perceived little risk of HIV; and misused HIV testing as a prevention method. Factors affecting HIV testing, included stigma, relationship dynamics and communication, and societal influences, suggesting that fear, low perception of risk, and HIV stigma may be the biggest barriers to HIV testing. These results also suggest that interventions directed toward African-American heterosexual men must address the use of "testing as prevention" as well as correct misunderstandings of the window period and the meaning of HIV test results, and interventions should focus on communicating about HIV.
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