Nurses at the frontline of public health emergency preparedness and response: lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and emerging infectious disease …

V Guilamo-Ramos, M Thimm-Kaiser… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary The years 2020–21, designated by WHO as the International Year of the Nurse
and Midwife, are characterised by unprecedented global efforts to contain and mitigate the …

Effectiveness of spatially targeted interventions for control of HIV, tuberculosis, leprosy and malaria: a systematic review

ME Khundi, JR Carpenter, M Nliwasa, T Cohen… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background As infectious diseases approach global elimination targets, spatial targeting is
increasingly important to identify community hotspots of transmission and effectively target …

Community‐led HIV testing services including HIV self‐testing and assisted partner notification services in Vietnam: lessons from a pilot study in a concentrated …

VTT Nguyen, HTT Phan, M Kato… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The HIV epidemic in Vietnam is concentrated in key populations and their
partners–people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, sex workers and partners of …

Exploring the scope and dimensions of vaccine hesitancy and resistance to enhance COVID-19 vaccination in Black communities

O Okoro, J Kennedy, G Simmons, EC Vosen… - Journal of Racial and …, 2021 - Springer
Background The long history of distrust that characterizes the relationship between the
Black/African-American population and the US Medical community makes COVID-19 …

[PDF][PDF] British HIV association/British association for sexual health and HIV/British infection association adult HIV testing guidelines 2020

A Palfreeman, A Sullivan, M Rayment, L Waters… - HIV …, 2020 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
1 Executive summary The elimination of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission
in the UK is now considered to be an achievable ambition. To attain this target all individuals …

A clinical utility evaluation of dual HIV/Syphilis point-of-care tests in non-clinical settings for screening for HIV and syphilis in men who have sex with men

L Fernàndez-López, J Reyes-Urueña, L Egea… - BMC Infectious …, 2024 - Springer
Background Dual point-of-care tests (POCTs) for the simultaneous detection of antibodies to
HIV and syphilis have been developed. Since community-based organisations (CBO) are …

Optimizing community linkage to care and antiretroviral therapy Initiation: Lessons from the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) and their adaptation …

I Jahun, I Said, I El-Imam, A Ehoche, I Dalhatu… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Ineffective linkage to care (LTC) is a known challenge for community HIV
testing. To overcome this challenge, a robust linkage to care strategy was adopted by the …

The short-term effects of COVID-19 on HIV and AIDS control efforts among female sex workers in Indonesia

RJ Magnani, DN Wirawan, AAS Sawitri… - BMC Women's …, 2022 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns as to its impact on other health
programs. One program that appears particularly vulnerable is HIV and AIDS. We undertook …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of HIV point-of-care tests in early HIV diagnosis: community-based HIV testing monitoring in Catalonia, 1995 to 2018

L Fernàndez-López, J Reyes-Urueña… - …, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
Background Community-based HIV testing services combined with the use of point-of-care
tests (POCT) have the potential to improve early diagnosis through increasing availability …

Measuring the uptake of clinic-based HIV treatment and prevention services following HIV testing and referral at private pharmacies in Kenya

V Omollo, SD Roche, S Zhang, M Asewe… - BMC Health Services …, 2025 - Springer
Background Despite their ubiquity across sub-Saharan Africa, private pharmacies are
underutilized for HIV service delivery beyond the sale of HIV self-test kits. To understand …