Implementation experiences and insights from the scale-up of an HIV assisted partner notification intervention in Central Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

WHO recommends assisted partner notification (APN) for people living with HIV (PLHIV). These services have not been widely scaled in Central Asia. We describe the results from an APN intervention implemented within a programme focused on PLHIV and people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan.

Methods

Routine data from index cases and their partners were analysed from equal-length periods before and after APN launch. Prior to APN index cases could recruit partners using passive referral, and under APN, had their choice of passive referral or APN (provider, contract or dual-referral). We compared the demographic characteristics of index cases and their sexual/injecting partners from the pre-APN and APN periods, described the number/pro

SUBMITTER: Little KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6639697 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature