"Meet People Where They Are": A Qualitative Study of Community Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Testing and HIV Self-Testing among African Americans in Urban and Rural Areas in North Carolina

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Summarizes community-based strategies to increase testing among African Americans in both urban and rural areas of North Carolina. Identifies concerns over confidentiality, negative treatment by healthcare workers, and lack of support regarding self-testing kits. Discusses strategies such as decentralizing HIV testing, particularly in rural areas.

Allison Mathews, Samantha Farley, Donaldson F. Conserve, et al.

BMC Public Health, 20(494)

04/2020

HIV and AIDS · Health screening · Rural-urban differences · Sexual and reproductive health · Statistics and data · Stigma · North Carolina