Clinic-based routine voluntary HIV testing in a refugee settlement in Uganda.

Autor: OʼLaughlin KN; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; †Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ‡Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; §Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA; ‖United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Representation in Uganda, Kampala, Uganda; ¶Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; #Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; **Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Boston, MA; ††Division of Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; ‡‡MGH Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; §§Bugema University, Kampala, Uganda; ‖‖United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland; and ¶¶Medical Teams International, Mbarara, Uganda., Kasozi J, Walensky RP, Parker RA, Faustin ZM, Doraiswamy S, Owino CO, Bassett IV
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) [J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr] 2014 Dec 01; Vol. 67 (4), pp. 409-13.
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000317
Abstrakt: We implemented and evaluated a clinic-based routine voluntary HIV testing intervention in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Comparing the standard of care period (40 d) with the intervention period (168 d), the mean HIV-infected clients identified per week increased from 0.9 to 5.6, and there was no significant difference between the HIV prevalence in the 2 periods (standard of care: 3.3%; intervention: 4.5%; P > 0.5). Clinic-based routine HIV testing in a refugee settlement is effective and should be considered for implementation in refugee settlements in other high-prevalence regions in sub-Saharan Africa.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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