HIV Self-Testing Uptake and Intervention Strategies Among Men in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Men’s perspectives on HIV self-testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

(2020) Mbuzeleni Hlongwa et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Usability assessment of seven HIV self-test devices conducted with lay-users in Johannesburg, South Africa

(2020) Mohammed Majam et al.   PLoS One

Promoting HIV Testing by Men: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit Preferences and Predict Uptake of Community-based Testing in Uganda

(2020) Elisabeth M. Schaffer et al.   Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Feasibility of an HIV self-testing intervention: a formative qualitative study among individuals, community leaders, and HIV testing experts in northern Tanzania

(2020) Bernard Njau et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Who accepts and who uses community-based secondary distribution HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits? Findings from the intervention arm of a cluster-randomised trial of HIVST distribution nested in four HPTN 071 (PopART) communities in Zambia

(2020) Bernadette Hensen et al.   JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES

Key Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Implementation and Scale up of HIV Self-Testing in Rwanda

(2020) Tafadzwa Dzinamarira et al.   Diagnostics

Announcing the availability of oral HIV self-test kits via text message to increase HIV testing among hard-to-reach truckers in Kenya: a randomized controlled trial

(2019) Elizabeth A. Kelvin et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

HIV self-testing as part of a differentiated HIV testing approach: exploring urban and rural adult experiences from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using a cross-over study design

(2019) Charlene Harichund et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

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

(2019) Augustine T. Choko et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Ability to understand and correctly follow HIV self‐test kit instructions for use: applying the cognitive interview technique in Malawi and Zambia

(2019) Musonda Simwinga et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

The impact and cost‐effectiveness of community‐based HIV self‐testing in sub‐Saharan Africa: a health economic and modelling analysis

(2019) Valentina Cambiano et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Applying user preferences to optimize the contribution of HIV self‐testing to reaching the “first 90” target of UNAIDS Fast‐track strategy: results from discrete choice experiments in Zimbabwe

(2019) Euphemia L Sibanda et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

HIV self‐testing: breaking the barriers to uptake of testing among men and adolescents in sub‐Saharan Africa, experiences from STAR demonstration projects in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

(2019) Karin Hatzold et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Acceptability and outcomes of distributing HIV self-tests for male partner testing in Kenyan maternal child health and family planning clinics

(2019) Jillian Pintye et al.   AIDS

Mapping evidence of intervention strategies to improving men’s uptake to HIV testing services in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic scoping review

(2019) Mbuzeleni Hlongwa et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Feasibility of community-based HIV self-screening in South Africa: a demonstration project

(2019) Limakatso Lebina et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Feasibility and robustness of an oral HIV self-test in a rural community in South-Africa: An observational diagnostic study

(2019) Walter Devillé et al.   PLoS One

Investigating the addition of oral HIV self-tests among populations with high testing coverage – Do they add value? Lessons from a study in Khayelitsha, South Africa

(2019) Hazel Ann Moore et al.   PLoS One

Perspectives on HIV partner notification, partner HIV self‐testing and partner home‐based HIV testing by pregnant and postpartum women in antenatal settings: a qualitative analysis in Malawi and Zambia

(2019) Rebecca B Hershow et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

(2019) Jonathan A C Sterne et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Repeat HIV testing of individuals with discrepant HIV self-test results in Central Uganda

(2019) Rose Kisa et al.   AIDS Research and Therapy

A systematic review of qualitative evidence on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV self-testing in Africa

(2019) Bernard Njau et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

HIV Self-Testing in Lusaka Province, Zambia: Acceptability, Comprehension of Testing Instructions, and Individual Preferences for Self-Test Kit Distribution in a Population-Based Sample of Adolescents and Adults

(2018) Arianna Zanolini et al.   AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES

High Acceptability and Increased HIV-Testing Frequency After Introduction of HIV Self-Testing and Network Distribution Among South African MSM

(2018) Sheri A. Lippman et al.   JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES

Acceptability and performance of a directly assisted oral HIV self-testing intervention in adolescents in rural Mozambique

(2018) Jonas Hector et al.   PLoS One

Impact of HIV Self-Test Distribution to Male Partners of ANC Clients

(2018) Anthony Gichangi et al.   JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES

Mate Yako Afya Yako: Formative research to develop the Tanzania HIV self-testing education and promotion (Tanzania STEP) project for men

(2018) Donaldson F. Conserve et al.   PLoS One

‘If I had not taken it [HIVST kit] home, my husband would not have come to the facility to test for HIV’: HIV self-testing perceptions, delivery strategies, and post-test experiences among pregnant women and their male partners in Central Uganda

(2018) Joseph K. B. Matovu et al.   Global Health Action

Uptake of HIV self-testing and linkage to treatment among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Nigeria: A pilot programme using key opinion leaders to reach MSM

(2018) Waimar Tun et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Stated and revealed preferences for HIV testing: can oral self-testing help to increase uptake amongst truck drivers in Kenya?

(2018) Michael Strauss et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster randomized evaluations

(2018) Melissa Neuman et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Ability to use oral fluid and fingerstick HIV self-testing (HIVST) among South African MSM

(2018) Sheri A. Lippman et al.   PLoS One

A pilot trial of the peer-based distribution of HIV self-test kits among fishermen in Bulisa, Uganda

(2018) Augustine T. Choko et al.   PLoS One

Community based distribution of oral HIV self-testing kits in Zambia: a cluster-randomised trial nested in four HPTN 071 (PopART) intervention communities

(2018) Chama Mulubwa et al.   Lancet HIV

‘. . . if you bring the kit home, you [can] get time and test together with your partner’: Pregnant women and male partners’ perceptions regarding female partner-delivered HIV self-testing in Uganda – A qualitative study

(2017) Joseph KB Matovu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS

Development and Impact of the Global Plan

(2017) David Haroz et al.   JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES

Understanding linkage to care with HIV self-test approach in Lusaka, Zambia - A mixed method approach

(2017) Jenala Chipungu et al.   PLoS One

Acceptability of woman-delivered HIV self-testing to the male partner, and additional interventions: a qualitative study of antenatal care participants in Malawi

(2017) Augustine Talumba Choko et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Examining the effects of HIV self-testing compared to standard HIV testing services: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2017) Cheryl C Johnson et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

High Acceptability of HIV Self-Testing among Technical Vocational Education and Training College Students in Gauteng and North West Province: What Are the Implications for the Scale Up in South Africa?

(2017) Mathildah Mpata Mokgatle et al.   PLoS One

Uptake and Acceptability of Oral HIV Self-Testing among Community Pharmacy Clients in Kenya: A Feasibility Study

(2017) Peter M. Mugo et al.   PLoS One

HIV self-testing values and preferences among sex workers, fishermen, and mainland community members in Rakai, Uganda: A qualitative study

(2017) Virginia M. Burke et al.   PLoS One

Supervised oral HIV self-testing is accurate in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2016) Guillermo Martínez Pérez et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Promoting Partner Testing and Couples Testing through Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Tests: A Randomized Clinical Trial

(2016) Samuel H. Masters et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

HIV Self-Testing: a Review of Current Implementation and Fidelity

(2016) Kristecia S. Estem et al.   Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Promoting male partner HIV testing and safer sexual decision making through secondary distribution of self-tests by HIV-negative female sex workers and women receiving antenatal and post-partum care in Kenya: a cohort study

(2016) Harsha Thirumurthy et al.   Lancet HIV

‘I Know that I Do Have HIV but Nobody Saw Me’: Oral HIV Self-Testing in an Informal Settlement in South Africa

(2016) Guillermo Martínez Pérez et al.   PLoS One

What are the constraints and opportunities for HIVST scale-up in Africa? Evidence from Kenya, Malawi and South Africa

(2015) Heidi van Rooyen et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study

(2015) Augustine T. Choko et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

HIV Self-Testing Could “Revolutionize Testing in South Africa, but It Has Got to Be Done Properly”: Perceptions of Key Stakeholders

(2015) Tawanda Makusha et al.   PLoS One

Effect of Optional Home Initiation of HIV Care Following HIV Self-testing on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among Adults in Malawi

(2014) Peter MacPherson et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Self-testing as strategy to increase the uptake of HIV testing in South Africa

(2013) Alta C van Dyk   AJAR-African Journal of AIDS Research

A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa

(2013) Maurice Musheke et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Client-Initiated, Provider-Initiated, or Self-Testing for HIV: What do South Africans Prefer?

(2013) Alta C. van Dyk   JANAC-JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NURSES IN AIDS CARE

The Uptake and Accuracy of Oral Kits for HIV Self-Testing in High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study in Blantyre, Malawi

(2011) Augustine Talumba Choko et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2009) David Moher et al.   PLOS MEDICINE