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Screening tool to identify adolescents living with HIV in a community setting in Zimbabwe: A validation study.

Tsitsi BandasonEthel DauyaSubathira DakshinaGrace McHughProsper ChonziShungu MunyatiHelen A WeissVictoria SimmsKatharina KranzerRashida Abbas Ferrand
Published in: PloS one (2018)
Use of the 4-item screening tool could be a strategy that can be adopted to identify children living with HIV in a community setting in resource limited settings by reducing the number needed to test compared to universal testing since it is inexpensive, easy to administer and not harmful. However, screening items adapted to a community setting need to be explored to improve the performance of the screening tool.
Keyphrases
  • mental health
  • healthcare
  • young adults
  • physical activity
  • hepatitis c virus
  • human immunodeficiency virus
  • men who have sex with men
  • psychometric properties
  • hiv infected
  • hiv testing