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Preferred HIV Testing Modalities Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya
- Source :
- The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. 68(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Purpose To improve testing coverage, it is imperative to determine adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) preferences about HIV testing modality and where they prefer receiving services. Methods Participants were enrolled between May 2017 and April 2018 from three sites in Homa Bay County, Nyanza region, western Kenya. We explored two recruitment approaches (home-based vs. mobile-event based) and three HIV testing options (oral self-test, staff-administered, or referral to health facility). Exact logistic regression compared yield of newly diagnosed HIV and high-risk HIV-negatives from the recruitment and testing option strategies. Results A total of 1,198 participants were enrolled, 1,046 (87.3%) at home and 152 (12.7%) at mobile events. Most participants (928, 77.5%) chose staff-aided testing either at home or at a mobile event; 268 (22.4%) chose self-testing; and only 2 (.2%) chose facility referral. Prevalence of newly diagnosed HIV-positives was 2.7% (32/1,198) and 36.8% (429/1,166) of HIV-negative AGYW were identified as high risk. We identified more newly diagnosed HIV infection among AGYW recruited at mobile events than at home (OR = 3.11; 95% CI: 1.33–6.74; p = .02). High-risk status was related to neither recruitment strategy nor testing modality. Older age was associated with increased odds of selecting an oral self-test (OR = 1.85; 95% CI: 1.06–3.22). Conclusions More than one-third of AGYW were at elevated risk of HIV infection, and those unaware of their HIV infection were more likely to be identified at a mobile outreach. Though self-testing was not the dominant preferred strategy, self-tests were performed accurately and with high confidence. These findings can help inform efficient identification of undiagnosed HIV infection and high risk for seroconversion among AGYW in similar settings.
- Subjects :
- Referral
Adolescent
Sexual Behavior
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
Hiv testing
medicine.disease_cause
Logistic regression
Odds
HIV Testing
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health facility
030225 pediatrics
Prevalence
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Seroconversion
Aged
Modalities
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Kenya
Psychiatry and Mental health
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18791972
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....32e828702d6f77176ff69190dc798ec5