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Digital innovations enhance HIV self-testing accuracy and user acceptance. These digital tools are feasible and impactful, supporting efforts to meet global HIV/AIDS targets in middle- and high-income countries.

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  • Infectious Disease Research
  • Digital Health Innovations

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  • HIV self-testing adoption is increasing due to new methods and technologies.
  • Digital HIV self-testing integrates digital innovations with traditional testing methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review digital HIV self-testing accuracy.
  • To update research on digital HIV self-test acceptability, preference, feasibility, and impact.

Main Methods:

  • Searched Embase and PubMed for studies on HIV self-testing with digital support.
  • Included studies with digital innovation and quantitative data, assessing accuracy (2013-2024) and patient-centered outcomes (2021-2024).
  • Assessed study quality using QUADAS 2, Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, and Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool 2.

Main Results:

  • Fifty-five studies from 19 countries analyzed digital HIV self-testing.
  • Accuracy metrics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV) showed high performance.
  • Acceptability ranged from 64.5% to 99.0%, preference from 4.6% to 99.3%, and test uptake from 30.9% to 98.2%.

Conclusions:

  • Digital innovations improve HIV self-test accuracy, acceptance, and preference.
  • Digital HIV self-testing is operationally feasible and impacts testing processes.
  • Digital HIV self-tests show promise for facilitating testing and achieving global HIV/AIDS targets.