NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary Men continue to be missed by HIV testing and treatment services. Index partner testing is a critical strategy for reaching men. Index HIV self-testing (HIVST), whereby ART clients take HIVST kits home to their sexual partners for testing, is a new strategy that dramatically increases index testing among men, and is being taken to scale across Malawi. However, only 25% of men identified as HIV-positive through Index HIVST initiate ART after 6- months. Innovative strategies to increase ART initiation and retention among men are urgently needed. The overarching goal of the proposed R01 is to test a home-based ART intervention (ART initiation + 3-months ART care) plus…
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