Surveying testing preferences in Black, Latin American, and other minorities for the co-design of digital vending machines for HIV self-testing
| Autor: | Elias Phiri, Gillian Dean, Marc Tweed, Ming J. Lee, Jaime H. Vera, Priyanka Goel, Husseina Hamza, Dominic Edwardes, Julie Fox, Lisa Hamzah, Tony Furlong, Luis Guerra, Denis Onyango |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Co-design
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Latin Americans Black african Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) HIV Infections Dermatology Hiv testing medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences Diagnostic Self Evaluation 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans Mass Screening Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Minority Groups 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Community Participation Patient Preference Hispanic or Latino Consumer Behavior Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care Black or African American Infectious Diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Family medicine Reagent Kits Diagnostic 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | International journal of STDAIDS. 31(2) |
| ISSN: | 1758-1052 |
| Popis: | The use of digital vending machines (VMs) to delivery HIV self-testing (HIVST) could expand HIV testing in priority populations. We surveyed primarily Black African (BA) participants and other minority ethnicities, to identify acceptability, preferences, and concerns of using VMs for HIVST dispensing. A structured survey was developed with Black African and Caribbean, Latin American and other Minorities (BLAM) communities, and distributed between September 2018 and January 2019. Participants were recruited using mobile tablet surveys distributed by outreach volunteers, and online through BLAM communities’ websites, workshops, and language-specific messages on social media. Descriptive analyses were undertaken stratified by ethnic groups. One hundred and twenty-eight (67.0%) participants identified as BAs, 31 (16.2%) Black Caribbeans (BCs), 22 (11.5%) Latin Americans (LAs), and 10 (5.2%) other non-white ethnicities (ONWEs). Rates of willingness to use the HIVST were high in all groups except BCs (BAs 77.9%, BCs 53.6%, LAs 81.8%, ONWEs 80.0%). Most participants favoured healthcare-associated venues for VM placement, but there were differences in community venues favoured by different ethnic groups and concerns reported. HIVST is acceptable in many BLAM communities and increases understanding of the concerns and how to address them in the design of VMs for HIVST, to expand HIV testing in these priority communities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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