Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been regarded as a global public health concern. In the global mission to minimize the existing gap on the diagnostic front, a number of strategies to promote HIV testing have been encouraged in heterogeneous settings. Detection of HIV infection u...
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| description | The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been regarded as a global public health concern. In the global mission to minimize the existing gap on the diagnostic front, a number of strategies to promote HIV testing have been encouraged in heterogeneous settings. Detection of HIV infection using self-testing kits has emerged as an important approach to ascertain the identification of new cases and for connecting the affected people with the health-care delivery system. It is quite an alarming fact that despite HIV is a major public health problem in India, we to date have no policy on the promotion of self-testing. The findings of a recently released report in India revealed that self-testing was found to be acceptable to vulnerable population groups and their partners. To conclude, acknowledging the merits that have been linked with self-testing and considering the encouraging results obtained in Indian settings, it is the need of the hour that policymakers draft the much-awaited policy on the promotion of HIV self-testing in the nation and promote it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6cf085eeb614f9baf8cefdd6ab7a2ae2023-07-21T14:41:08ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsEnvironmental Disease2468-57042023-01-0182464810.4103/ed.ed_6_23Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementationSaurabh RamBihariLal ShrivastavaPrateek Saurabh ShrivastavaThe human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been regarded as a global public health concern. In the global mission to minimize the existing gap on the diagnostic front, a number of strategies to promote HIV testing have been encouraged in heterogeneous settings. Detection of HIV infection using self-testing kits has emerged as an important approach to ascertain the identification of new cases and for connecting the affected people with the health-care delivery system. It is quite an alarming fact that despite HIV is a major public health problem in India, we to date have no policy on the promotion of self-testing. The findings of a recently released report in India revealed that self-testing was found to be acceptable to vulnerable population groups and their partners. To conclude, acknowledging the merits that have been linked with self-testing and considering the encouraging results obtained in Indian settings, it is the need of the hour that policymakers draft the much-awaited policy on the promotion of HIV self-testing in the nation and promote it.http://www.environmentmed.org/article.asp?issn=2468-5690;year=2023;volume=8;issue=2;spage=46;epage=48;aulast=Shrivastavahuman immunodeficiency virusindiaself-testingworld health organization |
| spellingShingle | Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation Environmental Disease human immunodeficiency virus india self-testing world health organization |
| title | Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation |
| title_full | Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation |
| title_fullStr | Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation |
| title_short | Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing in India: Time to move from evidence to implementation |
| title_sort | human immunodeficiency virus self testing in india time to move from evidence to implementation |
| topic | human immunodeficiency virus india self-testing world health organization |
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