Village health team-delivered oral HIV self-testing increases linkage-to-care and antiretroviral-therapy initiation among men in Uganda
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Targeted strategies are central to increasing HIV-status awareness and progress on the care cascade among men. We implemented Village-Health-Team (VHT)-delivered HIV self-testing (HIVST) among men in a peri-urban Ugandan district and assessed linkage to confirmatory-testing, antiretroviral-therapy (ART) initiation and HIV-status disclosure following HIVST. We conducted a prospective cohort study from November 2018 to June 2019 and enrolled 1628 men from 30-villages of Mpigi district. VHTs offered each participant one HIVST-kit and a linkage-to-care information leaflet. At baseline, we collected data on demographics, testing history and risk behavior. At one-month, we measured linkage to confirmatory-testing and HIV-status disclosure, and at three months ART-initiation if tested HIV-positive. We used Poisson regression generalized estimating equations to evaluate predictors of confirmatory-testing. We found that 19.8% had never tested for HIV and 43% had not tested in the last 12-months. After receiving HIVST-kits, 98.5% self-reported HIVST-uptake in 10-days, 78.8% obtained facility-based confirmation in 30-days of HIVST with 3.9% tested HIV-positive. Of the positives, 78.8% were newly diagnosed, 88% initiated ART and 57% disclosed their HIV-status to significant others. Confirmatory testing was associated with having a higher level of education and knowing a partner's HIV-status. VHT-delivered HIVST may be effective for boosting testing, ART-initiation and HIV-status disclosure among men
Christian ministry · Cohort · Environmental health · Family medicine · Poisson regression · Population · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Internal Medicine
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