Few Aggressive or Violent Incidents are Associated with the Use of HIV Self-tests to Screen Sexual Partners Among Key Populations - PubMed

Few Aggressive or Violent Incidents are Associated with the Use of HIV Self-tests to Screen Sexual Partners Among Key Populations - PubMed

Few Aggressive or Violent Incidents are Associated with the Use of HIV Self-tests to Screen Sexual Partners Among Key Populations

Alex Carballo-Diéguez 1, Rebecca Giguere 2, Iván C Balán 1, Curtis Dolezal 1, William Brown 3rd 1 3 4 5, Javier Lopez-Rios 1 6, Alan Sheinfil 7, Timothy Frasca 1, Christine Rael 1, Cody Lentz 1, Raynier Crespo 8, Catherine Cruz Torres 8, Cheng-Shiun Leu 1, Irma Febo 8

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• PMID: 32030526
 
• PMCID: PMC7319893 (available on 2021-07-01)
 
• DOI: 10.1007/s10461-020-02809-1

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Abstract 

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Men who have sex with men and transgender women who had multiple sexual partners in the prior 3 months participated in ISUM, a randomized, controlled trial of self- and partner-testing in New York City and San Juan, PR. Only 2% of screened participants were ineligible to enroll due to anticipating they would find it very hard to avoid or handle violence. The intervention group received free rapid HIV self-test kits. During the trial, 114 (88%) of intervention participants who were assessed at follow-up used self-tests with at least one potential partner. Only 6% of participants who asked a partner in person to test reported that at least one of their partners got physically violent, some in the context of sex work. In total, 16 (2%) partners reacted violently. Post-trial, only one participant reported finding it very hard to handle violence, and none found it very hard to avoid potential violence.

Keywords: HIV self-test; MSM; Transgender women; Violence.

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