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ArticleJournal of community health2021

The Role of Community Health Workers Within the Continuum of Services for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Other STIs Amongst Men Who Have Sex with Men in Europe.

Nicolas Lorente, Nigel Sherriff, Oksana Panochenko, Ulrich Marcus, Maria Dutarte, Matthias Kuske, Susanna Aussó, Jörg Huber, Michael Krone, Susanne Barbara Schink and 3 more

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Article in Journal of community health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Nicolas LorenteCentre Estudis Epidemiològics Sobre Les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual I Sida de Catalunya (CEEISCAT), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, 08916, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain. nlorente@igtp.cat.ORCID 0000-0002-5320-1493
Nigel SherriffSchool of Health Sciences, and Centre for Transforming Sexuality & Gender, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5657-5047
Oksana PanochenkoAIDS Action Europe (AAE), 10963, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3686-7688
Ulrich MarcusRobert Koch Institute, 13353, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3143-2717
Maria DutarteEuropean AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), 1000, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0582-0211
Matthias KuskeDeutsche Aidshilfe, 10963, Berlin, Germany.
Susanna AussóCentre Estudis Epidemiològics Sobre Les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual I Sida de Catalunya (CEEISCAT), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, 08916, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6981-0752
Jörg HuberSchool of Health Sciences, and Centre for Transforming Sexuality & Gender, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4446-5745
Michael KroneAIDS Action Europe (AAE), 10963, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5565-5712
Susanne Barbara SchinkRobert Koch Institute, 13353, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7542-9416
Caoimhe CawleyRobert Koch Institute, 13353, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7801-4806
Jordi CasabonaCentre Estudis Epidemiològics Sobre Les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual I Sida de Catalunya (CEEISCAT), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, 08916, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4816-5536
Cinta FolchCentre Estudis Epidemiològics Sobre Les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual I Sida de Catalunya (CEEISCAT), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, 08916, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8400-2668

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Little is known about Community Health Workers (CHWs) who work in non-clinical settings to provide sexual health support around HIV, viral hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe and neighbouring countries. This article describes for the first time, who CHWs are, and how they contribute to the continuum of services for HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs amongst MSM. The first European Community Health Worker Online Survey (ECHOES) developed in the framework of the EU-funded ESTICOM project ( www.esticom.eu ), was available in 16 languages (October 2017-January 2018). Amongst the 1035 persons aged 18 and older reporting CHW activities in the previous 12 months, 28.2% were women, 30.7% were volunteers, 59.2% were men self-defining as gay/homosexual, bisexual or queer ('peer CHWs'), and most CHWs worked/volunteered in private not-for-profit organisations (86.4%). CHWs involvement in the continuum of services for HIV, viral hepatitis and other STIs was as follows: primary prevention (88.6%), consultation and counselling (58.0%), testing provision (50.6%), linkage to care (49.8%), and treatment and support activities (51.3%). CHWs were also involved in cross-cutting activities such as developing interventions, advocacy, and engaging in research (46.3%). CHWs as a public health workforce contribute to all steps of the continuum of services for HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs amongst MSM in Europe. National governments should recognise and support CHWs better in order to make their activities more visible and sustainable, and increase their impact on the continuum of services.

Indexed as

Hepatitis, Viral, HumanHIV InfectionsSexual and Gender MinoritiesSexually Transmitted DiseasesCommunity Health WorkersEuropeFemaleHomosexuality, MaleHumansMaleSexual BehaviorCommunity Health WorkersHIVMSMSexual healthSexually transmitted infectionsViral hepatitis

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PMID32737744
PMCPMC7393028

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