‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi
Cheryl Johnson,Cheryl Johnson,Moses Kumwenda,Jamilah Meghji,Augustine T. Choko,Augustine T. Choko,Mackwellings Phiri,Karin Hatzold,Rachel Baggaley,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Fern Terris-Prestholt,Nicola Desmond,Nicola Desmond,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Elizabeth L. Corbett +15 more
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In this article, the authors conducted five focus group discussions and 12 in-depth interviews between April 2013 and November 2016 among rural and urban Malawian midlife-older (≥30 years) men and women.Citations
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Progress towards the UNAIDS 90‐90‐90 targets among persons aged 50 and older living with HIV in 13 African countries
Shannon M. Farley,Chunhui Wang,Rachel Bray,Andrea Low,Stephen Delgado,David Hoos,Angela N Kakishozi,Tiffany G. Harris,Rose Nyirenda,N Wadonda,Michelle S. Li,Mbaraka Amuri,James M Juma,Nzali Kancheya,Ismela Pietersen,Nicholus Mutenda,Salomo Natanael,Appolonia Aoko,Evelyn Ngugi,Fred Asiimwe,Shirley Lee Lecher,Jennifer Ward,Prisca Chikwanda,Owen Mugurungi,Brian Moyo,Peter Nkurunziza,Dorothy Aibo,Andrew Kabala,Samuel Biraro,Felix Ndagije,Godfrey Musuka,Clement B. Ndongmo,Judith Shang,E. Kainne Dokubo,Laura Dimite,Rachel McCullough-Sanden,Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek,Yimam Getaneh,Frehywot Eshetu,Tepa Nkumbula,Lyson Tenthani,Felix R. Kayigamba,Wilford Kirungi,Joshua Musinguzi,Shirish Balachandra,Eugenie Kayirangwa,Ayiyi Ayite,Christine West,Stephane Bodika,Katrina Sleeman,Hetal Patel,Kristin Brown,Andrew C. Voetsch,Wafaa El-Sadr,Jessica Justman +54 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined 90-90-90 progress by age, 15-49 (as a comparison) and 50+ years, with further analyses among 50+ (55-59, 60-64, 65+ vs. 50-54), in 13 countries (Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
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The utilization profile of place for HIV testing in Indonesia: A nationwide study
Nancy Olii,Hidayat Arifin,Yulia Kurniawati,Puspita Sukmawaty Rasyid,Bun Yamin M. Badjuka,Bih-O Lee +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the description of the uti cation of health facilities for HIV testing, which is an important indicator to record and track the spread and infection of HIV in Indonesia.
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“You have a self-testing method that preserves privacy so how come you cannot give us treatment that does too?” Exploring the reasoning among young people about linkage to prevention, care and treatment after HIV self-testing in Southern Malawi
Lisa Harrison,Moses Kumwenda,Lot Nyirenda,Richard Chilongosi,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Karin Hatzold,Cheryl Johnson,Musonda Simwinga,Nicola Desmond,Miriam Taegtmeyer +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the barriers and facilitators to linkage for HIV prevention and care following uptake of HIV self-testing among young Malawians, and found that the social consequences associated with inadvertent disclosure of HIV sero-status were a significant deterrent to linkage.
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Exploring factors associated with preferences for human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling among racially- and ethnically-diverse women in Minnesota: A cross-sectional study
Serena Xiong,Rahel G Ghebre,Shalini L Kulasingam,Susan M. Mason,Rebekah Pratt,DeAnn Lazovich +5 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that women aged 30-65 years old were recruited across Minnesota to complete an online survey to assess five outcome measures related to human papillomavirus self-sampling: awareness of test; self-efficacy to conduct test; location preference of test (clinic vs. home); collector preference (self vs. clinician); and preference of CCS strategy (HPV self sampling vs. Pap test).
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The HIV Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is Aging: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sebastian Vollmer,Kenneth Harttgen,Tobias Alfvén,Jude Padayachy,Peter D. Ghys,Till Bärnighausen +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that future DHS and other population-based HIV surveys should offer HIV testing to all adults without age limits and reveals a u-shaped relationship with lowest consent rates around age 35 years and higher consent rates among younger and older people.
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Factors associated with not testing for HIV and consistent condom use among men in Soweto South Africa.
Sakhile Mhlongo,Janan Dietrich,Janan Dietrich,Kennedy Otwombe,Gavin Robertson,Thomas J. Coates,Glenda Gray +6 more
TL;DR: Low rates of both condom use and HIV testing among men in a high HIV prevalence setting are worrisome and indicate an urgent need to develop innovative behavioral strategies to address this shortfall.
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Sexual behavior and HIV risk across the life course in rural South Africa: Trends and comparisons
Brian Houle,Sanyu A. Mojola,Nicole Angotti,Enid Schatz,F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Samuel J. Clark,Jill Williams,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Stephen Tollman,Jane Menken +9 more
TL;DR: This study uses a population-based survey among people aged 15–80+ to examine the prevalence of sexual risk and protective behaviors in the context of a severe HIV epidemic and finds insignificant differences between HIV positive and negative adults’ reports of recent sexual activity.
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"I was referred from the other side": Gender and HIV testing among older South Africans living with HIV.
Enid Schatz,Lucia Knight +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of this study is to document the pathways that older South Africans who are living with HIV take to access testing and treatment in this context, and finds similarities and differences between older men and women in their pathways to testing.
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster randomized evaluations.
Melissa Neuman,Pitchaya P. Indravudh,Richard Chilongosi,Marc d'Elbée,Nicola Desmond,Nicola Desmond,Katherine Fielding,Bernadette Hensen,Cheryl Johnson,Phillip Mkandawire,Alwyn Mwinga,Mutinta Nalubamba,Gertrude Ncube,Lot Nyirenda,Rose Nyrienda,Eveline Otte im Kampe,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Fern Terris-Prestholt,Helen A. Weiss,Karin Hatzold,Helen Ayles,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Elizabeth L. Corbett +22 more
TL;DR: This protocol describes two cluster-randomized trials (CRT) included within the UNITAID/PSI HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) project, to provide rigorous evidence of whether community-based lay HIVST distribution is an effective and cost-effective approach to increasing coverage of HIV testing and demand for follow-on HIV services in rural and peri-urban communities in sub-Saharan Africa.