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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

BACKGROUND: Knowledge of HIV status remains below target in sub-Saharan Africa, especially among men and adolescents. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a novel approach that enables unique distribution strategies, with potential to be highly decentralised and to provide complementary coverage to facility-...

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Autores principales: Neuman, Melissa, Indravudh, Pitchaya, Chilongosi, Richard, d’Elbée, Marc, Desmond, Nicola, Fielding, Katherine, Hensen, Bernadette, Johnson, Cheryl, Mkandawire, Phillip, Mwinga, Alwyn, Nalubamba, Mutinta, Ncube, Gertrude, Nyirenda, Lot, Nyrienda, Rose, Kampe, Eveline Otte im, Taegtmeyer, Miriam, Terris-Prestholt, Fern, Weiss, Helen A., Hatzold, Karin, Ayles, Helen, Corbett, Elizabeth L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30400959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6120-3