In December 2016, the World Health Organization recommended scale-up of HIV assisted partner services (APSs) as a strategy to increase the identification and testing of partners of persons with HIV . APSs offer persons with HIV assistance to confidentially notify their sexual and needle-sharing partners of their exposure and link the partners to testing and treatment. Randomized controlled trials have shown that APSs increase HIV testing and case finding and are cost-effective . APSs are scalable in routine practice, but routine APS programs have typically demonstrated lower HIV case finding than was observed in randomized controlled trials . At least in part, the low case finding observed with APSs in most settings reflects the small number of sexual and needle-sharing partners named by index cases.
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- Human-Centered Design of an mHealth Tool for Optimizing HIV Index Testing in Wartime Ukraine: Formative Research Case Study


Human-Centered Design of an mHealth Tool for Optimizing HIV Index Testing in Wartime Ukraine: Formative Research Case Study
Publication Year: 2025
Contributing Organisation: University of Washington
Authors: Nancy Puttkammer, Elizabeth Dunbar, and Myroslava Germanovych
Learning Themes: Digital Health
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