[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis stigma as a social determinant of health: a systematic mapping review of research in low incidence countries

GM Craig, A Daftary, N Engel, S O'driscoll… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma is an important social determinant of health. Research
generally highlights how stigma can have a considerable impact on individuals and …

Uptake, accuracy, safety, and linkage into care over two years of promoting annual self-testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: a community-based prospective study

AT Choko, P MacPherson, EL Webb, BA Willey… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Home-based HIV testing and counselling (HTC) achieves high uptake, but is
difficult and expensive to implement and sustain. We investigated a novel alternative based …

The use of social marketing campaigns to increase HIV testing uptake: a systematic review

JO Olawepo, JR Pharr, A Kachen - AIDS care, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social marketing campaigns have been increasingly used in HIV prevention efforts to
address barriers to HIV testing. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the social marketing …

Population-based estimates of life expectancy after HIV diagnosis: United States 2008–2011

HI Hall, X Hu, R Song - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Methods: Population-based surveillance data, restricted to persons with diagnosed HIV
infection aged 13 years or older, from all 50 states and Washington, DC were used to …

Prenatal care coverage and correlates of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Insight from demographic and health surveys of 16 countries

OE Awopegba, A Kalu, BO Ahinkorah, AA Seidu… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Prenatal screening of pregnant women for HIV is central to eliminating mother-
to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV. While some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) …

Using Anderson's model of health service utilization to assess the use of HIV testing services by sexually active men in Ghana

AA Seidu - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Globally, HIV testing and counseling is considered a key cost-effective
component of HIV prevention and treatment. This study sought to use Anderson's model of …

Challenges in initiating antiretroviral therapy for all HIV-infected people regardless of CD4 cell count

JJR Bigna, CS Plottel, S Koulla-Shiro - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2016 - Springer
Introduction Recently published large randomized controlled trials, START, TEMPRANO and
HPTN 052 show the clinical benefit of early initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV …

The potential of conversational agents to provide a rapid HIV counseling and testing services

A van Heerden, X Ntinga… - … conference on the …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In low-and middle-income countries where demand for health services outstrips the
available supply of skilled labor, advances in information and communication technologies …

PrEP protects us”: Behavioural, normative, and control beliefs influencing pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among pregnant and breastfeeding women in Zambia

TE Hamoonga, W Mutale, LM Hill, J Igumbor… - … in Reproductive Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended for pregnant and
breastfeeding women at elevated HIV risk, uptake has been low in Zambia. Methods In in …

Making HIV testing work at the point of care in South Africa: a qualitative study of diagnostic practices

N Engel, M Davids, N Blankvoort, K Dheda… - BMC health services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Point of care testing promises to reduce delays in diagnosing and initiating
treatment for infectious diseases such as Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). In South …