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S Tonen-Wolyec1, M Filali2, S Mboup3
1École doctorale régionale d'Afrique centrale en Infectiologie tropicale, Franceville, Gabon, Faculté de médecine, Université de Bunia, Bunia, République démocratique du Congo, Faculté de médecine et de pharmacie, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, République démocratique du Congo.
Abstract:
HIV self-testing constitutes a new complementary strategy for HIV testing for general populations as well as "key" populations such as sex workers and their clients, men who have sex with men, and young people; it may help to reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 objectives by 2020. In Africa, many pilot studies have been conducted, mainly in English-speaking countries, and they have demonstrated the high acceptability, practicability and clinical performance of HIV self-testing. Innovative strategies, including the translation of HIV self-test instructions for use into vernacular languages in association with educational pictograms, should be developed and evaluated in sub-Saharan Africa to implement HIV self-testing.
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