Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study

Choko, Augustine; MacPherson, Peter; L. Webb, Emily; Willey, Barbara; Feasy, Helena; Sambakunsi, Rodrick; Mdolo, Aaron; D Makombe, Simon; Desmond, Nicola; Hayes, Richard; Maheswaran, Hendramoorthy; L. Corbett, Elizabeth

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001873

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Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study

Published in PLoS Medicine • Sep 8, 2015

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Augustine Choko

Peter MacPherson

Emily L. Webb

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Home-based HIV testing and counselling (HTC) achieves high uptake, but is difficult and expensive to implement and sustain. We investigated a novel alternative based on HIV self-testing (HIVST). The aim was to evaluate the uptake of testing, accuracy, linkage into care, and health outcom...

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