Changes in Stigma and Social Support among Participants in a Randomized Trial of a Novel Expanded Social Network-based HIV Testing Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
HIV-related stigma is a well-documented barrier to HIV testing in South Africa, and may be particularly likely to create reluctance to test among South African men, who have reported feeling blamed for HIV by their partners and communities. The present study presents a novel expanded social network...
| Publicado en: | AIDS & Behavior Vol. 28; no. 8; pp. 2619 - 2630 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=178677553&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 178677553 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10907165 G1T jtl: AIDS & Behavior issn: 10907165 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2024 vid: 28 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 178677553 177645882 178677553 178677553 10.1007/s10461-024-04379-y 178677553 ppf: 2619 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Changes in Stigma and Social Support among Participants in a Randomized Trial of a Novel Expanded Social Network-based HIV Testing Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. aug: au: Williams, Leslie D. van Heerden, Alastair Friedman, Samuel R. Chibi, Buyisile Rodriguez, Wendy Avila Memela, Phumlani affil: https://ror.org/02mpq6x41 Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA sug: subj: HIV Infections Health Screening Methods Social Networks Program Development Stigma Prevention and Control Support, Social South Africa Human Randomized Controlled Trials Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Chi Square Test T-Tests Male Female Adult Multiple Linear Regression Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: HIV-related stigma is a well-documented barrier to HIV testing in South Africa, and may be particularly likely to create reluctance to test among South African men, who have reported feeling blamed for HIV by their partners and communities. The present study presents a novel expanded social network recruitment to HIV testing (E-SNRHT) intervention explicitly designed to reduce stigma as a barrier to testing by asking people to recruit anyone they know to testing, thus allowing them to avoid the potential for increased stigma and/or blame associated with direct risk partner recruitment, and helping to normalize openly discussing HIV among social networks. We examined baseline and 6-10-week follow-up data from a 2022–2023 randomized trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that recruited 110 individuals who had been newly diagnosed with HIV and randomly assigned them to recruit people to HIV testing either via the E-SNRHT intervention or via risk network recruitment. Participants in the E-SNRHT intervention reported significant decreases in anticipated and enacted HIV-related stigma between baseline and follow-up; and the E-SNRHT intervention was more effective at decreasing enacted HIV-related stigma than was risk network recruitment. Individuals newly diagnosed with HIV by the E-SNRHT intervention reported significant increases in social support between intervention enrollment and follow-up, and all of these individuals reported participating in positive conversations about HIV services with peers in the 6–10 weeks after intervention enrollment. These findings suggest that E-SNRHT is a potentially important strategy to reduce HIV-related stigma as a barrier to HIV testing among peer networks in KwaZulu-Natal. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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