Feasibility and acceptability of home-based HIV testing among refugees: a pilot study in Nakivale refugee settlement in southwestern Uganda

201819 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

Authors

Kelli N. O’Laughlin · Massachusetts General Hospital

Wei He · Massachusetts General Hospital

Kelsy E. Greenwald · Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency

Julius Kasozi · Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Yuchiao Chang · Harvard University

Edgar Mulogo · Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Zikama M. Faustin

Abstract

Home-based HIV testing in Nakivale Refugee Settlement was feasible, with 90% of eligible individuals encountered within 3 visits, and acceptable with 75% willing to test for HIV, with a yield of nearly 2% individuals tested identified as HIV-positive.

Topics & Keywords

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Sex work and related issues

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases

Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 332-332

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3238-y

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