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Scaling Up Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Contacts of Index Patients - 20 Countries, 2016-2018.
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- The Magnitude and Associated Factors of Early Index Case Testing Among Adult HIV Index Cases at Debre Markos Town High Load Health Facilities 2023.AIDS research and treatment · 2025Article
- Index-Linked Assisted HIV Self-Testing for Children 2-14 Years: Results of a Pilot Evaluation in Ethiopia.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Programme science in action: lessons from an observational study of HIV prevention programming for key populations in Lusaka, Zambia.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Observational
- Examining the feasibility of assisted index case testing for HIV case-finding: a qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to implementation in Malawi.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Improving HIV Case Finding Through Index Testing: Findings from Health Facilities in 12 Districts of South Africa, October 2019-September 2021.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- "The targets…are driving the agenda and that probably needs to change": stakeholder perspectives on HIV partner notification in sub-Saharan Africa.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- An exploration of multi-level factors affecting routine linkage to HIV care in Zambia's PEPFAR-supported treatment program in the treat all era.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Bioinformatics and system biology approach to identify the influences among COVID-19, influenza, and HIV on the regulation of gene expression.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
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- Development of a Blended Learning Approach to Delivering HIV-Assisted Contact Tracing in Malawi: Applied Theory and Formative Research.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Blood transcriptome analysis revealed the crosstalk between COVID-19 and HIV.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In 2017, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimated that worldwide, 36.9 million persons were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the virus infection that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Among persons with HIV infection, approximately 75% were aware of their HIV status, leaving 9.4 million persons with undiagnosed infection (1). Index testing, also known as partner notification or contact tracing, is an effective case-finding strategy that targets the exposed contacts of HIV-positive persons for HIV testing services. This report summarizes data from HIV tests using index testing in 20 countries supported by CDC through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) during October 1, 2016-March 31, 2018. During this 18-month period, 1,700,998 HIV tests with 99,201 (5.8%) positive results were reported using index testing. The positivity rate for index testing was 9.8% among persons aged ≥15 years and 1.5% among persons aged <15 years. During the reporting period, HIV positivity increased 64% among persons aged ≥15 years (from 7.6% to 12.5%) and 67% among persons aged <15 years (from 1.2% to 2.0%). Expanding index testing services could help increase the number of persons with HIV infection who know their status, are initiated onto antiretroviral treatment, and consequently reduce the number of persons who can transmit the virus.
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