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Optimizing Treatment and Treatment as Prevention (TasP): Qualitative Research Report

This report reflects the findings of qualitative research completed to explore knowledge, benefits, barriers, and other factors that influence HIV treatment and focusedg on one of the key recommendations that resulted from a previous round of research: improving treatment literacy (including treatment as prevention or TasP). This research was comprised of two focus groups and two community forums, which took place in Washington D.C.

Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring, Home-Based HIV Testing and Counselling: A Practical Handbook for Sub-Saharan Africa

This handbook is for home-based HIV testing and counseling (HBHTC) service providers to provide unified practical guidance on ways to address challenges and to outline important considerations when planning an HBHTC program. It is also meant for supervisors, program managers, and national policy makers and program planners.

Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral and Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women

This MMWR provides revised guidelines for HIV counseling, testing, and referral (CTR) and revised recommendations for HIV screening of pregnant women. It encourages the availability of anonymous and confidential HIV testing and informed, voluntary, and consented HIV testing; access to testing and effective provision of test results; and using a prevention counseling approach aimed at personal risk reduction for HIV-infected persons and persons at increased risk for HIV infection.

Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling of TB Patients - Livingstone District, Zambia, September 2004 - December 2006

This report summarizes results from a provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) pilot study conducted by the Zambian Ministry of Health, with assistance from the CDC Global AIDS Program Zambia, during September 2004 - December 2006. The study subjects were patients at three clinics in the Livingstone District of the Southern Province of Zambia. Among 4,148 persons diagnosed with TB, 2,072 (50%) were tested for HIV, and 1,497 of them (72%) tested positive.

Implementation of Routine HIV Testing in Health Care Settings: Issues for Community Health Centers

This report discusses community health centers (CHCs) in routine HIV testing consistent with the 2006 recommendations issued by CDC. It explains why it is important for CHCs to routinely offer HIV testing and provides general protocol elements for facility-based HIV testing, such as ensuring confidentiality, implementing alternatives to opt-out HIV testing, testing alternatives and procedures, encouraging patients to return if a confirmatory HIV test is performed, and providing test results to patients.

2012 HIV Sourcebook for the Primary Care Provider

This monograph is a sourcebook that provides information about HIV infection for professionals who work in today’s health care system. It is meant be a convenient reference for some of the most common issues encountered in daily practice. It contains an outline of basic HIV patient care, and a list of resources that can be accessed locally. It presents guidelines and recommendations related to antiretroviral therapy (ART), treatment of opportunistic diseases, HIV testing and counseling, prevention of perinatal transmission, and post-exposure prophylaxis.

MMWR: Routine HIV Screening in Two Health-Care Settings –New York City and New Orleans, 2011-2013

This report describes novel HIV screening programs at the Urban Health Plan (UHP), Inc. in New York City and the Interim Louisiana Hospital (ILH) emergency department in New Orleans. Both received startup funding from Gilead Sciences’ HIV on the Frontlines of Communities in the United States (FOCUS) program to implement routine HIV screening. Both programs identified previously undiagnosed HIV infections. Use of the new testing algorithm allowed the New Orleans program to identify antibody-negative acute infections in five (6%) of the 77 patients with newly diagnosed HIV.