Abstract
BackgroundNot all men who have sex with men (MSM) at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection currently receive sexual healthcare. To increase the coverage of high-quality HIV/STI care for MSM, we developed a home-care programme, as extended STI clinic care. This programme included home sampling for testing, combined with treatment and sexual health counselling. Here, we pilot implemented the programme in a hospital setting (HIV-positive MSM) to determine the factors for the successful implementation of STI home sampling strategies.MethodsHealthcare providers from the HIV hospital treatment centre (Maastricht) were invited to offer free STI sampling kits (syphilis, hepatitis B, [extra]genital chlamydia and gonorrhoea laboratory testing) to their HIV-positive MSM patients (March to May 2018). To evaluate implementation of the program, quantitative and qualitative data were collected to assess adoption (HIV care providers offered sampling kits to MSM), participation (MSM accepted the sampling kits) and sampling-kit return, STI diagnoses, and implementation experiences.ResultsAdoption was 85.3% (110/129), participation was 58.2% (64/110), and sampling-kit return was 43.8% (28/64). Of the tested MSM, 64.3% (18/28) did not recently (
Original language | English |
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Article number | 925 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | BMC Infectious Diseases |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Home sampling
- STI
- MSM
- HIV care
- Implementation
- SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
- NEISSERIA-GONORRHOEAE
- PREVENTION
- TRACHOMATIS
- BARRIERS
- CENTERS
- GAY