Journal
AIDS AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages S445-S449Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-014-0831-y
Keywords
HIV self-testing; Harm; Self examinations; Self tests
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Although HIV self-testing may overcome some barriers to HIV testing, various stakeholders have expressed concerns that HIV self-testing may lead to unintended harm, including psychological, social and medical harm. Recognizing that similar concerns were raised in the past for some other self-tests, we conduct a review of the literature on a set of self-tests that share some characteristics with HIV self-tests to determine whether there is any evidence of harm. We find that although the potential for harm is discussed in the literature on self-tests, there is very little evidence that such harm occurs.
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