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Informing efforts to reach UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 targets: A comparison of characteristics of people diagnosed with HIV in health facilities to the general population of people living with HIV in Mozambique
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Global targets aim to increase the number of people living with HIV (PLWH) who know their status. Using data from Mozambican facility-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) and a population-based survey, we compared characteristics of PLWH diagnosed in HTC to the general population of PLWH to identify subgroups that are missing from the health system and may be undiagnosed. Male and female PLWH aged 50+ (PPR = 0.47, p = .0001) and with higher HIV knowledge (PPR = 0.52, p = .004) were underrepresented in HTC. A higher proportion of patients diagnosed in health facilities were aged 25–39 (PPR = 1.23, p = .02). Female PLWH with lower economic (PPR = 0.70, p = .04) and educational status (PPR = 0.86, p = .02) and male PLWH aged 18–24 (PPR = 0.47, p = .03) were underrepresented in HTC. Comparing HTC data to population-based data can inform efforts to increase HIV diagnoses and to ensure that all PLWH know their status.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Counseling
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health (social science)
Social Psychology
Adolescent
030231 tropical medicine
Population
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
Hiv testing
medicine.disease_cause
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Mass Screening
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Mozambique
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
digestive system diseases
Family medicine
Population Surveillance
Female
Health Facilities
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....10371bae01d19c152cab811b780e3caf