ArticleJournal of infectious diseases and medicine2018
Health System Factors Influencing Partner Notification for STIs and HIV in Lilongwe Malawi. A Pre-intervention Phase Assessment for a Quality Improvement Project.
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- Barriers and facilitators of HIV partner status notification in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Conditional Cash Transfers to Incentivize Tuberculosis Screening: Description of a Novel Strategy for Contact Investigation in Rural South Africa.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Trial
- Evaluation of Partner Notification Strategies to Improve Syphilis Management in Pregnancy in Blantyre, Malawi: A Mixed-Methods Study.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2026Article
- Time to HIV testing of sexual contacts identified by HIV-positive index clients in Siaya County, Kenya.PloS one · 2020Article
- [Compliance with the partner notification of HIV/STI patients in the counties of Lleida].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2019Article
- Improving STI and HIV Passive Partner Notification using the Model for Improvement: A Quality Improvement Study in Lilongwe Malawi.Journal of infectious diseases and medicine · 2018Article
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introductionDespite its wide use, passive partner notification (PN) has a low yield of sexual partners influenced by patient-related and health system (HS) factors.
methodsWe conducted a qualitative study and clinic observations during a pre-intervention phase of a quality improvement (QI) project to identify HS factors that influenced passive PN at Bwaila STI unit (BSU) in Lilongwe Malawi from January to February 2016. We conducted 15 in-depth interviews with health workers and clinic observations for six clinic flow and PN processes at the clinic.
resultsThe majority of health workers felt that the lack of incentives for sexual partners or couples who presented to the clinic was the most important negative HS factor that influenced passive PN. We observed an average clinic start time of 09:02 hours. The average duration of the group health talk was 56 minutes and there was no difference in the time spent at the clinic between index cases and partners (1 hour 41 minutes versus 1 hour 36 minutes respectively). DISCUSSION: Lack of incentives for sexual partners or couples was the most important HS factors that impacted the yield of sexual partners. Interventions focusing on designing simple non-monetary incentives and QI of passive PN should be encouraged.
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