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Youth-friendly HIV self-testing: Acceptability of campus-based oral HIV self-testing among young adult students in Zimbabwe.

Andrea L KorisKearsley A StewartTiarney D RitchwoodDaniel MususaGetrude NcubeRashida A FerrandGrace McHugh
Published in: PloS one (2021)
Barriers to HIV testing among young people are numerous and complex. As the number of new HIV infections among youth continue to grow worldwide, targeted strategies and youth friendly approaches that increase access to testing are needed to close the diagnostic coverage gap. This is the first study to describe young adult acceptance of campus-based delivery of HIVST by lay counselors in Zimbabwe.
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  • young adults
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  • antiretroviral therapy
  • human immunodeficiency virus
  • childhood cancer
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