Author's response to reviews Title: Feasibility and acceptability of point of care HIV testing in community outreach and GUM drop-in services in the North West of England: A programmatic evaluation Authors:
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Peter MacPherson ([email protected]) Anu Chawla ([email protected]) Kathy Jones ([email protected]) Emer Coffey ([email protected]) Vida Spaine ([email protected]) Ian Harrison ([email protected]) Pauline Jelliman ([email protected]) Penelope Phillips-Howard ([email protected]) Caryl Beynon ([email protected]) Miriam Taegtmeyer ([email protected])
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Feasibility and acceptability of point of care HIV testing in community outreach and GUM drop-in services in the North West of England: A programmatic evaluation
BACKGROUND In Liverpool, injecting drug users (IDUs), men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and UK Africans experience a disproportionate burden of HIV, yet services do not reach out to these groups and late presentations continue. We set out to: increase testing uptake in targeted marginalized groups through a community and genitourinary medicine (GUM)-based point of care testing (POCT) programme; a...
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تاریخ انتشار 2011