Monitoring progress towards the first UNAIDS target: understanding the impact of people living with HIV who re-test during HIV-testing campaigns in rural Mozambique.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Awareness of HIV-infection goes beyond diagnosis, and encompasses understanding, acceptance, disclosure and initiation of the HIV-care. We aimed to characterize the HIV-positive population that underwent repeat HIV-testing without disclosing their serostatus and the impact on estimates of the first UNAIDS 90 target. METHODS:This analysis was nested in a prospective cohort established in southern Mozambique which conducted three HIV-testing modalities: voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), provider-initiated counselling and testing (PICT) and home-based testing (HBT). Participants were given the opportunity to self-report their status to lay counsellors and HIV-positive diagnoses were verified for previous enrolment in care. This study included 1955 individuals diagnosed wit

SUBMITTER: Fuente-Soro L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898226 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature