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Experience of Offering HIV Rapid Testing to At-Risk Patients in Community Health Centers in Eight Chinese Cities
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 1, p e86609 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility of offering HIV counseling and testing in community health centers (CHCs) and to provide evidence for the HIV/AIDS response in China. METHODS: Forty-two CHCs were selected from the eight cities that participated in the study. Rapid testing was mainly provided to: clients seeking HIV testing and counseling (HTC); outpatients with high-risk behavior of contracting HIV; inpatients and outpatients of key departments. Aggregate administrative data were collected in CHCs and general hospitals and differences between the two categories were compared. RESULTS: There were 23,609 patients who underwent HIV testing, accounting for 0.37% of all estimated clinic visits at the 42 sites (0.03%-4.35% by site). Overall, positive screening prevalence was 0.41% (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.33%-0.49%, range 0.00%-0.98%), which is higher than in general hospitals (0.17%). The identification efficiency was 0.22% (95% CI: 0.16%-0.27%) in pilot CHCs, 3.5 times higher than in general hospitals (0.06%) (Chi square test = 95.196, p
- Subjects :
- Counseling
Male
Gerontology
Program evaluation
Health Screening
Non-Clinical Medicine
Epidemiology
lcsh:Medicine
HIV Infections
Risk Factors
Young adult
lcsh:Science
Multidisciplinary
Obstetrics and Gynecology
AIDS Serodiagnosis
Middle Aged
AIDS
HIV epidemiology
Community health
Medicine
Infectious diseases
Female
Public Health
Research Article
Adult
China
medicine.medical_specialty
Urology
Voluntary counseling and testing
HIV prevention
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Viral diseases
Hospitals, General
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Young Adult
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
medicine
Chi-square test
Humans
Cities
Biology
Health Care Policy
Population Biology
Genitourinary Infections
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:R
HIV
Community Health Centers
medicine.disease
Confidence interval
Family medicine
lcsh:Q
business
Screening Guidelines
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f98f868bf668d7c4123619158e2af695