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SynthesisAIDS and behavior2024

Effectiveness of Linkage to Care and Prevention Interventions Following HIV Self-Testing: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Oluwafemi Atanda Adeagbo, Oluwaseun Abdulganiyu Badru, Claude Ngwayu Nkfusai, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

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Synthesis in AIDS and behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Oluwafemi Atanda AdeagboDepartment of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Oluwaseun Abdulganiyu BadruDepartment of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. agbadru@yahoo.co.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0076-2745
Claude Ngwayu NkfusaiDepartment of Public Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Luchuo Engelbert BainDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.
University of Iowa · USInternational Development Research Centre · CAUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over 38.4 million people were living with HIV globally in 2021. The HIV continuum includes HIV testing, diagnosis, linkage to combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), and retention in care. An important innovation in the HIV care continuum is HIV self-testing. There is a paucity of evidence regarding the effectiveness of interventions aimed at linking self-testers to care and prevention, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). To bridge this gap, we carried out a global systematic review and meta-analysis to ascertain the effectiveness of interventions post-HIV self-testing regarding: (1) linkage to care or ART, (2) linkage to PrEP, and (3) the impact of HIV self-test (HIVST) interventions on sexual behaviors. We searched PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS, Cochrane Library, CINAHL Plus (EBSCO), MEDLINE (Ovid), Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. We included only published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experiment that compared HIVST to the standard of care (SoC). Studies with sufficient data were aggregated using meta-analysis on RevMan 5.4 at a 95% confidence interval. Cochrane's Q test was used to assess heterogeneity between the studies, while Higgins and Thompson's I

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HIV InfectionsHIV TestingSelf-TestingAnti-HIV AgentsContinuity of Patient CareFemaleHumansMalePre-Exposure ProphylaxisSexual BehaviorAnti-HIV AgentsHIVSTLinkage to carePrEPRCTSexual behavior

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PMID37668817
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