Meehan S-A, Draper H R, Burger R, Beyers N
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Public Health Action. 2017 Dec 21;7(4):304-306. doi: 10.5588/pha.17.0064.
Drivers of and barriers to testing are not well understood for those who have never been tested previously and now self-initiate at a community-based human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) testing service (CB-HTS). This descriptive study enrolled 229 first-time testers. Participants completed an electronic questionnaire. The majority reported fear and (non) accessibility of HTS as barriers to testing (40% and 24%, respectively). Wanting 'to know my status' and the immediate opportunity to test were reported as drivers of testing (41% and 35%, respectively). Addressing fear of testing and providing an easily accessible opportunity to test may go some way to encouraging those previously untested individuals to test.
对于那些从未接受过检测、现在在社区人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)检测服务(CB-HTS)中主动要求检测的人来说,检测的驱动因素和障碍并未得到充分理解。这项描述性研究招募了229名首次接受检测者。参与者完成了一份电子问卷。大多数人报告称,对检测的恐惧和检测服务难以(或无法)获得是检测的障碍(分别为40%和24%)。报告称,“想知道自己的状况”以及能立即获得检测机会是检测的驱动因素(分别为41%和35%)。解决对检测的恐惧并提供易于获得的检测机会,可能在一定程度上有助于鼓励那些以前未接受检测的人进行检测。