What is it about?
This study evaluated HIV Testing Services offering and uptake to injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya to assess how emergency care could be leveraged to contribute to deliver HIV services to persons that have been historically difficult to reach, such as young adults and males.
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Why is it important?
Offering of HIV Testing Services to the predominately young and male injury population seeking emergency care was infrequent, but when offered, there was high uptake and a high relative identification of newly diagnosed PLHIV (12.1%, 95%CI: 9.8-14.8%) as compared to the baseline population. Opportunities exist to enhance emergency department based HIV Testing Services engagement, which could help identify undiagnosed and often difficult to reach populations during emergency care encounters.
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To end the HIV epidemic, testing and treatment must be provided to all in need, and especially to high-risk groups with inadequate HIV care. Adolescents/young adults, and especially men, are populations often missed by HIV services that could be engaged during commonly needed emergency injury care. With appropriate research to inform implementation, there is great potential for integrated HIV-emergency care programming to contribute to identifying people living with HIV and advance progress toward global HIV control goals.
Adam Aluisio
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of standard HIV testing services delivery to injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya: A prospective observational study, PLOS Global Public Health, October 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000526.
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