Trial reportBMJ global health2025
Integrating point-of-care screening for curable sexually transmitted infections with HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B screening in antenatal care services in Zimbabwe: a mixed-methods process evaluation.
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Investigating Point-of-care Diagnostics for Sexually Transmitted Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance in Primary Care in Zimbabwe
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Integrating point-of-care screening for curable sexually transmitted infections with HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B screening in antenatal care services in Zimbabwe: a mixed-methods process evaluation.BMJ global health · 2025Trial
- Integrated Service Delivery Models for Triple Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B Virus: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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17 authors.
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Abstract
introductionSexually transmitted infections (STIs) in pregnancy are associated with adverse birth outcomes. We investigated the uptake and yield of point-of-care screening for
methodsA prospective interventional study was conducted in two public-sector ANC clinics in Harare. Clients attending for ANC were screened in parallel for
resultsBetween 12 January 2023 and 23 October 2023, there were 13 500 ANC attendances over 207 implementation days. Of 1105 (8.2%) assessed for eligibility, 1103 (99.8%) were eligible, of whom uptake of the full screening package was 91.0% (1004/1103). Curable STI prevalence was 30.7% (308/1003), of whom 303 (98.4%) received same-day treatment. HBV prevalence was 1.4% (14/1003). The prevalence of HIV was 10.5% (105/1003), with 20 (19.0%) being new diagnoses.Although the intervention was highly acceptable, diagnostic capacity and workload were barriers to recruitment. In particular, the collection and testing of multiple sample types with different tests, with a range of reading times, was challenging.
conclusionWe demonstrated high levels of acceptability, screening uptake and same-day treatment. However, a low proportion of ANC attendees were enrolled overall, and current technological limitations preclude this particular testing strategy from being scaled up beyond low-volume settings. We recommend investment into the development of STI point-of-care tests with shorter analytic times and research into alternative strategies involving laboratory-based high-throughput testing. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05541081; registered 15 September 2022.
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