Undiagnosed
This is the first step in the HIV Cascade of Care—or client journey. Undiagnosed clients are unaware of their HIV status. Most programs designed for men at this stage make testing more convenient and accessible. We also work to reduce stigma and ensure that men believe that knowledge of their status is meaningful to them.
Ads in the Chukua Selfie campaign promote an easy way to test for HIV with new self-testing kits
A movement of the youth, by the youth, for the youth. The wildly popular #CHUKUA Selfie story began with a single social media post. Read More
What if buying an HIV self-test kit was an impulse buy like picking up a chocolate bar? Meet the HIV Self-Testing Challenge Fund in Kenya. Read More
Self-testing is a major breakthrough in HIV care. Self Testing Africa (STAR) is a powerful innovator in low and middle-income countries. Read More
A cluster-randomized controlled trial which found that offering facility-based HIVST in outpatient departments at high-volume health facilities increased the proportion of outpatients tested for HIV compared with standard and optimized PITC.
Training for primary counselors on interpersonal communication, counseling, gender norms, and stigma; intensive monitoring of index testing results in weekly dashboard and mentoring visits to high volume sites; Holiday logbook to pre-book contacts who live in other countries but visit during holidays; offering index testing to virally unsuppressed ART clients; strengthened IPV screening (3% documented risk); harmonized index testing register for facility and community index; active collaboration with community index testing IPs for tracking elicited contacts outside facilities; weekly line listing and analysis of HTS_POS who have not been initiated
This initiative takes a comprehensive approach to providing clinical services in the community across the cascade - from testing to treatment.
Client-centered intervention to reach men with confidential HIV testing services at work.