PMID- 32070722
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200728
LR  - 20200728
IS  - 1878-3511 (Electronic)
IS  - 1201-9712 (Linking)
VI  - 95
DP  - 2020 Jun
TI  - HIV self-testing: The key to unlock the first 90 in West and Central Africa.
PG  - 162-166
LID - S1201-9712(20)30074-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.016 [doi]
AB  - The West and Central African region (WCAR) still registers some of the highest 
      rates of new HIV infections worldwide (16%) despite a low prevalence of HIV 
      (1.9%). In this region, only 48% of people living with HIV are aware of their HIV 
      status. To fill this gap, HIV Self testing (HIVST) could potentially be an 
      additional approach to overcome the barriers to diagnose HIV infected patients, 
      therefore being one of the keys to unlock the first 90 as recommended by the 
      World Health Organization (WHO) since 2016. However, many challenges remain for 
      the adoption of HIVST in routine clinical practice in low prevalence settings and 
      need to be contextualized to WCAR settings. We report in this paper some of the 
      challenges and discuss opportunities for a successful implementation of HIVST in 
      the WCAR.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
FAU - Ekouevi, Didier K
AU  - Ekouevi DK
AD  - Universite de Lome, Faculte des Sciences de la Sante, Lome, Togo; Centre Africain 
      de Recherche en Epidemiologie et en Sante Publique, Lome, Togo; ISPED, Universite 
      de Bordeaux & Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health, Bordeaux, France. 
      Electronic address: didier.ekouevi@gmail.com.
FAU - Bitty-Anderson, Alexandra M
AU  - Bitty-Anderson AM
AD  - ISPED, Universite de Bordeaux & Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health, 
      Bordeaux, France; Programme PACCI, site ANRS, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
FAU - Gbeasor-Komlanvi, Fifonsi A
AU  - Gbeasor-Komlanvi FA
AD  - Universite de Lome, Faculte des Sciences de la Sante, Lome, Togo; Centre Africain 
      de Recherche en Epidemiologie et en Sante Publique, Lome, Togo.
FAU - Coffie, Ahuatchi P
AU  - Coffie AP
AD  - Programme PACCI, site ANRS, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Unite pedagogique de 
      Dermatologie et Infectiologie, Unite de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences 
      Medicales, Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Centre de 
      Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et les Pathologies Infectieuses, 
      Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
FAU - Eholie, Serge Paul
AU  - Eholie SP
AD  - Programme PACCI, site ANRS, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Unite pedagogique de 
      Dermatologie et Infectiologie, Unite de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences 
      Medicales, Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Centre de 
      Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et les Pathologies Infectieuses, 
      Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200215
PL  - Canada
TA  - Int J Infect Dis
JT  - International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the 
      International Society for Infectious Diseases
JID - 9610933
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Africa, Central
MH  - Africa, Western
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Infections/*diagnosis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Self Care
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Challenges
OT  - HIV Self-testing
OT  - Implementation
OT  - West and Central Africa
EDAT- 2020/02/20 06:00
MHDA- 2020/07/29 06:00
CRDT- 2020/02/20 06:00
PHST- 2019/11/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/02/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/02/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/07/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S1201-9712(20)30074-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.016 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Jun;95:162-166. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.016. Epub 2020 
      Feb 15.