Social network methods for HIV case-finding among people who inject drugs in Tajikistan.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

HIV testing programmes have struggled to reach the most marginalized populations at risk for HIV. Social network methods such as respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and peer-based active case-finding (ACF) may be effective in overcoming barriers to reaching these populations. We compared the client characteristics, proportion testing HIV positive (yield), and number of new cases found through two RDS strategies and an ACF approach to HIV case-finding among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Tajikistan.

Methods

Routine programme data from adult PWID recruited to testing under the HIV Flagship Project in Tajikistan were analysed to compare client demographic and clinical characteristics across the three approaches. We also compared the number of previously untested cl

SUBMITTER: Kan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6055120 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature