HIV self-testing in the HitTB study
HIV Self-Testing AfRica Zambia
... Costing tools will be used in conjunction with service-related financial and activity reports in order to determine the unit costs of providing HTC and subsequent HIV care. Obtaining costs from MoH will require ...
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Arguments for and against HIV self-testing
... rapid HIV assay, that the FDA approved a point-of-care test for home ...of self-test use that demon- strated that 4,000 infections might be prevented in the first ...of self-testing. Whether ...
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Using HIV self-testing to increase the affordability of community-based HIV testing services.
... per HIV-positive identified as the conventional HTS and HIVST costs respectively, by dividing the relevant total costs by the relevant outcomes for each ...
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HIV INSTANT RESULT SELF-TESTING IN SCOTLAND:
... for HIV Services 27 require that each board produce its own HIV testing policy, which should include guidance on testing in clinical and non-clinical settings and for high risk ...result ...
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New initiatives to develop self-testing for HIV
... encourage testing in individuals who test sub-optimally and can increase the frequency at which some individuals test, it is less clear whether it is more efficacious or cost effective at detecting prevalent ...
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Zambian Peer Educators for HIV Self-Testing (ZEST) study: rationale and design of a cluster randomised trial of HIV self-testing among female sex workers in Zambia
... about HIV status through the ...this study, we do not offer HIVST for FSWs to test with their clients or other sexual ...partner testing could be a bene fit for some participants, it could also put ...
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Regulation of HIV self testing in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe: a qualitative study with key stakeholders
... The study shares limitations of qualitative approaches in general, principally the non-generalizability of study ...our study since it enabled us to explore, describe and analyse sensitive issues ...
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Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi
... ’ self-assessment of their health status, whilst the EQ-5D utility score reflects a general population preference for the overall health state delineated across five dimensions with the added benefit that utility ...
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Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self testing and facility based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi
... ’ self-assessment of their health status, whilst the EQ-5D utility score reflects a general population preference for the overall health state delineated across five dimensions with the added benefit that utility ...
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Repeat HIV testing of individuals with discrepant HIV self-test results in Central Uganda
... individuals testing HIV-negative on the repeat HIVST is largely due to the three participants who had missing ...as HIV-positive by interviewers were actu- ally ...as HIV-negative since ...
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The clinical and cost effectiveness of HIV self testing in Blantyre, Malawi
... accessing HIV testing services, and their associated work ...by self- reported income (Pritchard and Sculpher, ...the testing service, including travel and waiting time, was ...the ...
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The HIV self-testing debate: where do we stand?
... of testing modality continues to ...the HIV response, the prevailing assumptions behind the test itself, the ethical implications of HST, the discursive tension between testing and screening, and the ...
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Community led delivery of HIV self testing to improve HIV testing, ART initiation and broader social outcomes in rural Malawi: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial
... process data critical to understanding any outcome variation. In summary, the primary aim of this trial is to test whether community-led delivery of HIVST in rural Malawi can increase the proportion of the population who ...
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The effects of HIV self-testing on the uptake of HIV testing and linkage to antiretroviral treatment among adults in Africa: a systematic review protocol
... rapid HIV diagnostic tests (RDTs) including self-testing ...on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS resource library), Alliance of Health Pol- icy and Systems Research, and The World ...
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The Uptake and Accuracy of Oral Kits for HIV Self-Testing in High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study in Blantyre, Malawi
... to self-test for HIV at home when self-testing was linked to confirmatory blood tests, with self-testing the preferred option for future ...of HIV for two decades, ...
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Cost effectiveness of community based HIV self testing in Blantyre, Malawi
... of HIV infections averted depends on ART coverage among HIV-positive individuals, considering HIV transmission is likely to have led to lower ICER estimates; therefore, our find- ings represent ...
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HIV self testing services for female sex workers, Malawi and Zimbabwe
... of HIV care and prevention ...with HIV self-testing, and among female sex workers this is no ...confirmatory testing. In contrast, data for women and their partners using HIV ...
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HIV self testing services for female sex workers, Malawi and Zimbabwe
... additional HIV self-testing distribution ...networks HIV: human immunodeficiency ...accuracy study is evaluating implementation under suboptimal, real-life ...
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HIV self-testing services for female sex workers, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
... of HIV care and prevention ...with HIV self-testing, and among female sex workers this is no ...confirmatory testing. In contrast, data for women and their partners using HIV ...
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Who is Reached by HIV Self-Testing? Individual Factors Associated With Self-Testing Within a Community-Based Program in Rural Malawi.
... earlier study of community-based HIVST in urban Malawi reported similar age patterns, with uptake of HIVST highest in adolescents and lowest in older adults 13 ...mixed-methods study in Malawi and Zambia ...
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