Understanding effective post-test linkage strategies for HIV prevention and care: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Following HIV testing services (HTS), the World Health Organization recommends prompt linkage to prevention and treatment. Scale-up of effective linkage strategies is essential to achieving the global 95-95-95 goals for maintaining low HIV incidence by 2030 and reducing HIV-related morbidity and mortality. Whereas linkage to care including same-day antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation for all people with HIV is now routinely implemented in testing programmes, linkage to HIV prevention interventions including behavioural or biomedical strategies, for HIV-negative individuals remains sub-optimal. This review aims to evaluate effective post-HTS linkage strategies for HIV overall, and highlight gaps specifically in linkage to prevention.

Methods

Using the five-st

SUBMITTER: Wamuti B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009370 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature