What is it about?
This HIV Risk of exposure and Indicator conditions questionnaire is the first validated tool that can help health workers to select which patients should be tested for HIV. We show that no HIV diagnostics are lost compared to universal testing and the costs can be reduced by half.
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Why is it important?
Health workers have many barriers to implement HIV testing in their settings, this questionnaire can save time, and resources, automating HIV testing selection.
Perspectives
This HIV pretesting questionnaire could be used by the patient in multiple scenarios , health or non-health , and could be adapted to be disseminated and implemented through new information technologies and social networks
Dr Maria Jesus Perez-Elías
Hospital Ramon y Cajal
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This page is a summary of: Development and Validation of an HIV Risk Exposure and Indicator Conditions Questionnaire to Support Targeted HIV Screening, Medicine, February 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000002612.
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