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The COBATEST network: monitoring and evaluation of HIV community-based practices in Europe, 2014–2016
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Objective: The objective of this paper is to describe the data collected by the CBVCT services from the Community-based testing (COBATEST) network, from 2014 to 2016, in order to provide an insight into community-based voluntary counselling and testing (CBVCT) services’ testing activity in Europe. Methods: A descriptive analysis of HIV testing activity in CBVCT services that are using the COBATEST tools was performed for the period 2014–2016. Results: During the study period, a total of 30 329 HIV tests were performed on 27 934 individuals, of which 1.8% were reactive. Of these reactive tests, 75.8% had a confirmatory test, 92.2% of those were confirmed as positive, and 90.38% of the confirmed positives were linked to care. The total number of tests performed over the study period increased 19.31%. The proportion of confirmatory tests increased from 63.0% to 90.0% and proportion linked to care increased from 84.1% to 93.8%. Most of the tested individuals were men (70.6%), aged between 21 and 35 years (58.5%) and nonforeign born (68.1%). A high proportion of individuals tested were men who have sex with men (MSM; 42.2%). The percentage of reactive screening tests was particularly high among transgender people (8.37%) and among male sex workers (6.38%). Repeat testers had a higher percentage of reactive tests (2.02%) than those tested for first time (1.1%). Conclusions: These results prove the feasibility of collecting standardized data from CBVCT services in different countries across Europe and demonstrate the usefulness of such data.
Autoria:
FERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ, Laura; REYES URUEÑA, Juliana; AGUSTÍ BENITO, Cristina; KUSTEC, Tanja; SERDT, M.; KLAVS, Irena; CASABONA BARBARÀ, Jordi
Autoria institucional: COBATEST Network group
Autoria institucional: COBATEST Network group
Fitxa bibliogràfica
- Any de publicació:
- 2018
- Publicació:
- Oxford [etc.] : Blackwell Publishing
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- Número:
- Vol. 19, suppl. 1 (2018), p. 21-26
- Format:
- Article
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