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Assisted HIV partner services training in three sub‐Saharan African countries: facilitators and barriers to sustainable approaches

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Healthcare worker training is essential to successful implementation of assisted partner services (aPS), which aims to improve HIV testing and linkage‐to‐care outcomes for previously unidentified HIV‐positive individuals. Cameroon, Kenya and… Click to show full abstract

Healthcare worker training is essential to successful implementation of assisted partner services (aPS), which aims to improve HIV testing and linkage‐to‐care outcomes for previously unidentified HIV‐positive individuals. Cameroon, Kenya and Mozambique are three African countries that have implemented aPS programmes and are working to bring those programmes to scale. In this paper, we present and compare different aPS training strategies implemented by these three countries, and discuss facilitators and barriers associated with implementation of aPS training in sub‐Saharan Africa.

Keywords: partner services; hiv; sub saharan; facilitators barriers; african countries

Journal Title: Journal of the International AIDS Society
Year Published: 2019

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