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| Abstract #335 - E-Posters English | ||||
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Session: 50.78: E-Posters English (Poster) on Sunday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Dr Nicola Desmond - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Malawi |
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| Additional Authors: Dr. Jordi Casabona, Sra Cristina Sanclemente, Dra. Anna Esteve, Dra. Victoria Gonzalez, Grupo HIVITS TS, | ||||
| Aim: The option of HIV self-testing (HST) offers enormous potential to scale-up access to testing in resource-poor, epidemic contexts. However, opponents of HST express rights-based concerns associated with the availability and quality of counselling, the potential for coercive testing and increased risk behaviour amongst those who test negative. Despite this, calls to end AIDS exceptionalism and promote normalisation of HIV are increasingly vocal and HST responds to these calls. Embedded within a social and ethics discourse, this paper will explore the social impact of introducing HST with counselling for couples and individuals in Blantyre, Malawi. | ||||
| Method / Issue: Drawing on theories of risk perception, household gender relations, power, trust and risk compensation and combining qualitative and quantitative methods, we will present preliminary findings to show how access to a novel HST technology re-frames risk and prevention for couples and individuals. | ||||
| Discussion: The results of this study will provide an evidence-base to inform policy debate and contribute to strategies to optimise beneficial testing outcomes and minimise harms to help shape HIV counselling and testing approaches internationally in the future. | ||||
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