Condition: Undiagnosed HIV Infection · Populations That Are Reluctant to Test for HIV · Long-term Undiagnosed HIV Infection · Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
In South Africa's large generalized HIV epidemic, male-to-female transmission comprises a large proportion of transmission events, but men are much less likely to seek HIV testing, and disproportionately remain undiagnosed. HIV-related stigma is a key barrier to recruiting men to HIV testing in South Africa, as they report feeling blamed by their partners and communities for HIV transmission. This barrier must be addressed to increase testing among men and other testing-avoidant people in order to locate "hard-to-reach" undiagnosed cases and make progress towards 95-95-95 goals. Peer recruitment via social networks is an effective mechanism for promoting HIV testing, because people seek health information from peers, and peers influence health behavior norms within networks. However, standard risk network recruitment is limited in that: 1) recruiting one's own risk partners can trigger stigma and blame for HIV; and 2) it excludes people who have not engaged in HIV risk behavior recently and/or who no longer have contact with their risk partners. The Investigative Team for the present study developed an expanded social network recruitment to HIV testing (E-SNRHT) intervention to address these limitations and reduce stigma as a barrier to testing. E-SNRHT asks "seeds" (i.e., initial participants) who have been newly diagnosed with HIV (NDH) to recruit their expanded social network members (i.e., anyone they know) who they think could benefit from HIV testing or could have an un…
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Leslie D. Williams, Ph.D. · 312-996-8820 · lesliedw@uic.edu
Alastair van Heerden, Ph.D. · alastair.vanheerden@wits.ac.za
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