Journal article
Australian men who have sex with men prefer rapid oral HIV testing over conventional blood testing for HIV
MY Chen, JE Bilardi, D Lee, R Cummings, M Bush, CK Fairley
International Journal of STD and AIDS | Published : 2010
Abstract
This study examined the views of 172 community-based Australian men who have sex with men (MSM) on the acceptability and potential uptake of rapid oral testing for HIV in clinic and home-based settings. Men were asked to complete a questionnaire that sought their views on rapid testing for HIV. When asked about which HIV test they would prefer in a clinic setting, 64% indicated a preference for rapid oral HIV testing and 74% indicated that if rapid oral HIV testing was available at a clinic they would test for HIV more frequently. If rapid oral HIV testing was available for home testing, 63% of men indicated it would be likely they would test themselves for HIV and 61% indicated they would t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the following people for their support of this study: the men who kindly agreed to the study, doctors and nurses from the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre who distributed the questionnaires the organizers of the Midsumma carnival and Chill Out festival and the Alfred Health Public Relations Unit. Quoc Pham (Orasure, USA) for providing consent to the use of images of the Oraquick Advance (R) Test.