Policies and Practices Facilitating Access to and Uptake of HIV Testing Services among Adolescents in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Narrative Review

DS Boakye, E Kumah, S Adjorlolo - Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 2024 - Springer
Supportive policies, youth-responsive adaptations across testing models and strengthening
age-disaggregated monitoring are vital to improving adolescents' engagement across the …

[HTML][HTML] Using adult care visits to diagnose HIV infection in children, Burkina Faso

S Tassembédo, IT Traoré, M Traoré-Barro… - Bulletin of the World …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To estimate the feasibility, positivity rate and cost of offering child testing for human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to mothers living with HIV attending outpatient clinics in …

Index Case HIV Testing Uptake and its Associated Factors at Oromia, Ethiopia

MA Hussen, D Kadire, BT Kefeni… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Lack of index case testing increased the risk of contracting HIV among the
families of index clients, partners, and biological children. The aim of this study was to …

A costing analysis of B-GAP: index-linked HIV testing for children and adolescents in Zimbabwe

A Vasantharoopan, H Maheswaran, V Simms… - BMC health services …, 2021 - Springer
Background By testing children and adolescents of HIV positive caretakers, index-linked HIV
testing, a targeted HIV testing strategy, has the ability to identify high risk children and …

Correlates of uptake of HIV testing among children and young adolescents in Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria: a secondary data analysis of the Akwa-Ibom aids indicator …

D Adetoro, H Khamofu, T Badru, J Markson… - BMC pediatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background In order to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, there is a need to significantly
reduce the rate of new infection among children and young adolescents. Identifying the …

Rates of confirmatory HIV testing, linkage to HIV services, and rapid initiation of antiretroviral treatment among newly diagnosed children living with HIV in Ethiopia …

A Bekele, S Hrapcak, JA Mohammed, JA Yimam… - BMC pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Successful linkage to HIV services and initiation of antiretroviral treatment
(ART) for children living with HIV (CLHIV) is critical to improve pediatric ART coverage. We …

Home-based HIV testing for children: a useful complement for caregivers with more children, who are male, and with an HIV negative partner

J Wang, C Mugo, VO Omondi, IN Njuguna… - AIDS and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Expanding index and family-based testing (HBT) is a priority for identifying children living
with HIV. Our study characterizes predictors that drive testing location choice for children of …

Male caregiver barriers to HIV index case testing of untested children

J Neary, AD Wagner, V Omondi, V Otieno… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Supported by the Collaborative Initiative for Pediatric HIV Education and Research,
International AIDS Society (323-NJU). This publication was additionally supported in part by …

المعاملة الوالدية الإيجابية وعلاقتها بالصحة النفسية للأطفال ذوي الإعاقة الجسدية في محافظة العاصمة عمان من وجهة نظر أولياء أمورهم

RM Al Momani, ABAQ Al Majali - Dirasat: Educational Sciences, 2023 - dsr.ju.edu.jo
Objectives: The study aimed to identify the relationship between positive parental treatments
with the psychological health of children with physical disabilities in the Amman governorate …

Pediatric HIV Test–Treat–Retain Cascade Analysis Evaluating Patient Level Determinants of Pediatric HIV & AIDS Management under the Treat All Policy: A Four …

BBE Ochigbo - 2022 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines the factors driving the success of the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) epidemic management in children in four African countries. As demonstrated by …