Tag: HIV testing

Projects

• PANTHEON: A comprehensive assessment of the cost-effectiveness of HIV testing strategies, including HIV self-testing, among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the UK (2015-2018)
• HAUS: Feasibility and acceptability of self-sampling kits to increase the uptake of HIV testing among black Africans in the United Kingdom (2014-2016)
• Evaluation of fasTest HIV testing in the community pilots (2004-2006)

Final reports

• fasTest community HIV testing pilot (gsk funded): final evaluation report
  Sigma Research, 2006 (ISBN 1 872956 91 2)
• fasTest community HIV testing pilot (DH funded): final evaluation report
  Sigma Research, 2006 (ISBN 1 872956 90 4)

Journal articles

• Self-sampling kits to increase HIV testing among black Africans in the UK: the HAUS mixed-methods study.
  Health Technology Assessment, 2018 April; 22(22):1-158 (doi: 10.3310/hta22220).
• Risk, reassurance and routine: a qualitative study of narrative understandings of the potential for HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men in England
  BMC Public Health, 2017; 17:491 (doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4370-0).
• Consolidating emerging evidence surrounding HIVST and HIVSS: a rapid systematic mapping protocol
  Systematic Reviews, 2017; 6:72 (doi:10.1186/s13643-017-0452-4).
• Uptake contexts and perceived impacts of HIV testing and counselling among adults in East and Southern Africa: A meta-ethnographic review
  PLoS ONE, 2017; 12(2):e0170588 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170588).
• New initiatives to develop self-testing for HIV
  Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2017; 30(1):50-57 (doi:10.1097/QCO.0000000000000336).
• Determinants of never having tested for HIV among MSM in the Netherlands
  BMJ Open. 2016, 12;6(1):e009480 (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009480).
• HIV testing history and preferences for future tests among gay men, bisexual men and other MSM in England: results from a cross-sectional study
  BMJ Open 2016; 6: e011372 (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011372).
• HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the UK: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators, intervention preferences and perceived impacts
  PLoS ONE, 11(9): e0162713 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162713). Published 9 September 2016.
• The HIV care cascade in Switzerland: reaching the UNAIDS/WHO targets for patients diagnosed with HIV
  AIDS, 2015; 29(18):2509–2515 (doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000000878).
• Internet-based cohort study of HIV testing over 1 year among men who have sex with men living in England and exposed to a social marketing intervention promoting testing
  Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2015, 91:24-30 (doi:10.1136/sextrans-2014-051598).

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Presentations

• Feasibility and acceptability of home sampling kits to increase the uptake of HIV testing among Black Africans in the United Kingdom: the HAUS Study
  (Catherine Dodds & Maureen Seguin)
  HIV Prevention England, Expert Seminar event on New HIV testing technologies, 7 November 2016
• What role does HIV self-testing have for men who have sex with men in the UK? Testing needs, social norms and biological citizenship
  (T. Charles Witzel; Fiona Burns; Alison J. Rodger; Peter Weatherburn; Tim Rhodes)
  21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), Durban, South Africa, July 18-22, 2016
• Values and preferences of HIV self-testing options in UK men who who have sex with (MSM): Barriers, facilitators and intervention preferences
  (T. Charles Witzel, Alison J. Rodger, Fiona Burns & Peter Weatherburn)
  21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), Durban, South Africa, July 18-22, 2016
• Changing patterns in HIV testing among MSM 1997-2008
  (Peter Weatherburn)
  13th annual CHAPS Conference (C13), Sheffield, 2nd - 3rd March 2010.