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Surveying testing preferences in Black, Latin American, and other minorities for the co-design of digital vending machines for HIV self-testing
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posted on 2023-06-09, 20:26 authored by Ming J Lee, Denis Onyango, Husseina Hamza, Elias Phiri, Tony Furlong, Priyanka Goel, Dominic Edwardes, Marc Tweed, Luis Guerra, Lisa Hamzah, Gillian Dean, Julie Fox, Jaime Vera RojasJaime Vera RojasThe use of digital vending machines (VMs) to delivery HIV self-testing (HIVST) could expand HIV testing in priority populations. We surveyed primarily Black African (BA) participants and other minority ethnicities, to identify acceptability, preferences, and concerns of using VMs for HIVST dispensing. A structured survey was developed with Black African and Caribbean, Latin American and other Minorities (BLAM) communities, and distributed between September 2018 and January 2019. Participants were recruited using mobile tablet surveys distributed by outreach volunteers, and online through BLAM communities’ websites, workshops, and language-specific messages on social media. Descriptive analyses were undertaken stratified by ethnic groups. One hundred and twenty-eight (67.0%) participants identified as BAs, 31 (16.2%) Black Caribbeans (BCs), 22 (11.5%) Latin Americans (LAs), and 10 (5.2%) other non-white ethnicities (ONWEs). Rates of willingness to use the HIVST were high in all groups except BCs (BAs 77.9%, BCs 53.6%, LAs 81.8%, ONWEs 80.0%). Most participants favoured healthcare-associated venues for VM placement, but there were differences in community venues favoured by different ethnic groups and concerns reported. HIVST is acceptable in many BLAM communities and increases understanding of the concerns and how to address them in the design of VMs for HIVST, to expand HIV testing in these priority communities.
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International Journal of STD and AIDSISSN
0956-4624Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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2020-01-29First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-01-28Usage metrics
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