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Acceptability of HIV self-testing: a systematic literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2013
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Title
Acceptability of HIV self-testing: a systematic literature review
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-735
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Authors

Janne Krause, Friederike Subklew-Sehume, Chris Kenyon, Robert Colebunders

Abstract

The uptake of HIV testing and counselling services remains low in risk groups around the world. Fear of stigmatisation, discrimination and breach of confidentiality results in low service usage among risk groups. HIV self-testing (HST) is a confidential HIV testing option that enables people to find out their status in the privacy of their homes. We evaluated the acceptability of HST and the benefits and challenges linked to the introduction of HST.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
France 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 343 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 74 21%
Researcher 61 17%
Student > Bachelor 29 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 8%
Other 23 7%
Other 55 16%
Unknown 82 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 95 27%
Social Sciences 44 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 11%
Psychology 14 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 4%
Other 49 14%
Unknown 99 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2022.
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#1,063,316
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,151
of 15,466 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,279
of 200,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#23
of 254 outputs
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