ArticleSAHARA J : journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance2018
Health care users' knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of HIV self-testing at selected gateway clinics at eThekwini district, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
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- HIV Self-Testing Uptake and Intervention Strategies Among Men in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Exploring Determinants of HIV/AIDS Self-Testing Uptake in South Africa Using Generalised Linear Poisson and Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Co-creation of HIVST delivery approaches for improving urban men's engagement with HIV services in eThekwini District, KwaZulu-Natal: nominal group technique in intervention development.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Awareness and Attitudes Toward HIV Self-Testing in Northern Thailand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Enthusiasm for Introducing and Integrating HIV Self-Testing but Doubts About Users: A Baseline Qualitative Analysis of Key Stakeholders' Attitudes and Perceptions in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Implementation outcomes of HIV self-testing in low- and middle- income countries: A scoping review.PloS one · 2021Article
- Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Implementation and Scale up of HIV Self-Testing in Rwanda.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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- HIV testing preferences among pregnant women attending antenatal care and their male partners: a discrete choice experiment in Uganda.African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · 2019Article
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Abstract
Progress in promoting knowledge of HIV status has been made globally, but half of all people living with HIV are still unaware of their HIV status. It is argued the new innovative HIV self-testing strategy could increase the uptake of HIV testing among the people. The aim of the study was to assess outpatients' health care user's knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards HIV self-testing (HIVST) at selected Gateway clinics at eThekwini District, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The objectives of the study were to determine health care users' knowledge of HIVST, assess health care users' attitudes and perceptions towards HIVST and establish if there is any relationship between knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of health care users towards HIVST. A quantitative, non-experimental descriptive design was used to determine knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of health care users at three purposefully selected Addington, R. K. Khan and Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital Gateway clinics at eThekwini Health District. A convenience sampling of 442 respondents were sampled from the three study sites. Results of the study revealed that health care users had a reasonable knowledge of HIV self-testing and there were indications that they could use it if it can be made freely available to the public and be properly regulated. Generally, health care users indicated positive attitudes towards HIV self-testing. Nevertheless, issues of lack of pre and post-test counselling, false negative results and sale of unregulated testing kits seemed to be issues of concern that require addressing if HIV self-testing is to be promulgated in South Africa.
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