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Meehan SA, Draper HR, Burger R, et al. What drives 'first-time testers' to test for HIV at community-based HIV testing services?. Public Health Action. 2017;7(4):304-306doi: 10.5588/pha.17.0064.
Meehan, S. A., Draper, H. R., Burger, R., & Beyers, N. (2017). What drives 'first-time testers' to test for HIV at community-based HIV testing services?. Public health action, 7(4), 304-306. https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.17.0064
Meehan, S-A, et al. "What drives 'first-time testers' to test for HIV at community-based HIV testing services?." Public health action vol. 7,4 (2017): 304-306. doi: https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.17.0064
Meehan SA, Draper HR, Burger R, Beyers N. What drives 'first-time testers' to test for HIV at community-based HIV testing services?. Public Health Action. 2017 Dec 21;7(4):304-306. doi: 10.5588/pha.17.0064. PMID: 29584797; PMCID: PMC5753785.
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Public Health Action. 2017 Dec 21;7(4):304-306. doi: 10.5588/pha.17.0064.

What drives 'first-time testers' to test for HIV at community-based HIV testing services?.

Public health action

S-A Meehan, H R Draper, R Burger, N Beyers

Affiliations

  1. Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
  2. Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

PMID: 29584797 PMCID: PMC5753785 DOI: 10.5588/pha.17.0064

Abstract

Drivers of and barriers to testing are not well understood for those who have never been tested previously and now self-initiate at a community-based human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) testing service (CB-HTS). This descriptive study enrolled 229 first-time testers. Participants completed an electronic questionnaire. The majority reported fear and (non) accessibility of HTS as barriers to testing (40% and 24%, respectively). Wanting 'to know my status' and the immediate opportunity to test were reported as drivers of testing (41% and 35%, respectively). Addressing fear of testing and providing an easily accessible opportunity to test may go some way to encouraging those previously untested individuals to test.

Keywords: barriers; community-based HIV testing; drivers; first-time testers

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: none declared.

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