Community-based HIV rapid testing (TROD) in France over a three-year period, 2012–2014.

This article presents a three-year review of community-based HIV screening using rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in France, as part of a national program comprising 60 subsidized organizations. From 2012 to 2014, 149,800 RDTs were performed by these community-based or prevention organizations, of which 0.9% were positive. A gradual increase in the number of RDT screenings was observed, with approximately 31,700 RDTs performed in 2012, 56,500 in 2013, and 61,600 in 2014. This was accompanied by a shift in the types of activities conducted at association sites or “outside the walls” and a diversification of the populations reached by testing. Peer-led testing among populations with very high HIV prevalence, recommended in the 2010–2014 National Plan to Combat HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), appears to have established itself within France’s testing system.

Author(s): Sarr A, Itodo O, Bouche N, Cate L, Faliu B

Publishing year: 2015

Pages: 772-8

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, 2015, n° 40-41, p. 772-8

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