Venue-Based HIV Testing at Sex Work Hotspots to Reach Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living With HIV: A Cross-sectional Study in Mombasa, Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We estimated the potential number of newly diagnosed HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) using a venue-based approach to HIV testing at sex work hotspots.

Methods

We used hotspot enumeration and cross-sectional biobehavioral survey data from the 2015 Transition Study of AGYW aged 14-24 years who frequented hotspots in Mombasa, Kenya. We described the HIV cascade among young females who sell sex (YFSS) (N = 408) versus those young females who do not sell sex (YFNS) (N = 891) and triangulated the potential (100% test acceptance and accuracy) and feasible (accounting for test acceptance and sensitivity) number of AGYW that could be newly diagnosed through hotspot-based HIV rapid testing in Mombasa. We identified the profile of AGYW with an HI

SUBMITTER: Ma H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340222 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature