HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial

HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial

How pregnant women could play a role in HIV screening for men

New research suggests that pregnant women could play a role in reaching men who might need to be screened for HIV. The study looked at more than 2,300 women receiving pregnancy-related care in urban Malawi. They were given either a letter for their male partner to visit an HIV clinic, self-testing kits to take home to their partners, or kits along with a financial incentive for visiting a clinic. Men who received self-testing kits were much more likely to head to a clinic within a month."Pregnancy and the postpartum period are times of unusually high HIV risk for both partners as well as the child," the authors write, and the interventions studied could represent a "promising new approach" to address that risk. 

HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial

• Augustine T. Choko ,
• Elizabeth L. Corbett,
• Nigel Stallard,
• Hendramoorthy Maheswaran,
• Aurelia Lepine,
• Cheryl C. Johnson,
• Doreen Sakala,
• Thokozani Kalua,
• Moses Kumwenda,
• Richard Hayes,
• Katherine Fielding

• Published: January 2, 2019
• https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002719