Acceptance and Feasibility of Partner Notification to HIV Infected Individuals in Guinea-Bissau.
Contact tracing
Guinea-Bissau
HIV
Partner notification
Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal
AIDS and behavior
ISSN: 1573-3254
Titre abrégé: AIDS Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9712133
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2020
May 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
11
11
2019
medline:
26
11
2020
entrez:
10
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
As partner notification (PN) has shown effective in increasing the number of partners of HIV infected patients being tested we aimed to evaluate the feasibility of implementing PN in the West-African country Guinea-Bissau. Patients enrolled were offered the choice of three different PN methods. Acceptance, successful referrals and HIV status of partners were evaluated. Of 697 patients offered PN, 495 (71.0%) accepted and listed 547 partners. At end of follow-up 118 (21.5%) partners had been tested of which 44 (37.3%) were HIV infected. HIV infected partners had a higher median CD4 count at diagnosis compared with index patients; 401 cells/mm
Identifiants
pubmed: 31705346
doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02717-z
pii: 10.1007/s10461-019-02717-z
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1476-1485Investigateurs
Amabelia Rodrigues
(A)
David da Silva Té
(D)
Zacarias da Silva
(Z)
Candida Medina
(C)
Ines Oliviera-Souto
(I)
Lars Østergaard
(L)
Alex Lund Laursen
(AL)
Peter Aaby
(P)
Anders Fomsgaard
(A)
Christian Erikstrup
(C)
Bo Langhoff Hønge
(BL)
Christian Wejse
(C)
Sanne Jespersen
(S)