Community Perspectives on Optimizing Community Health Volunteer Roles for HIV Prevention Services in Kenya and Uganda.

• Tác giả: Cecilia Akatukwasa, Titus M O Arunga, Fredrick Atwine, James Ayieko, Carol S Camlin, Gabriel Chamie, Diane Havlir, Jason Johnson-Peretz, Jane Kabami, Elijah Kakande, Moses R Kamya, Anjeline Onyango, Lawrence Owino, Maya L Petersen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 967.6 *Uganda and Kenya
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : AIDS patient care and STDs , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 284489

Tóm tắt

Community health workers (CHWs) play a significant role in supporting health services delivery in communities with few trained health care providers. There has been limited research on ways to optimize the role of CHWs in HIV prevention service delivery. This study explored CHWs' experiences with offering HIV prevention services [HIV testing and HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP)] during three pilot studies in rural communities in Kenya and Uganda, which aimed to increase biomedical HIV prevention coverage via a structured patient-centered HIV prevention delivery model. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted from November 2021 to March 2022 with CHWs (