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01-06-2016 | Brief Report
An HIV Testing Intervention in African American Churches: Pilot Study Findings
Authors:
Jannette Berkley-Patton, MA, PhD, Carole Bowe Thompson, BS, Erin Moore, PhD, Starlyn Hawes, PhD, Stephen Simon, PhD, Kathy Goggin, PhD, David Martinez, PhD, Marcie Berman, MA, Alexandria Booker, BA
Published in:
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
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Issue 3/2016
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Excerpt
African Americans represent nearly 45 % of new HIV cases each year [
1,
2]. Due to delayed HIV diagnosis, African Americans tend to enter HIV treatment at advanced stages and die from AIDS sooner than Whites [
1]. Goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy include having 90 % of persons living with HIV be aware of their HIV-positive status and expanding community-level HIV testing approaches in high-risk communities to reduce the spread of HIV [
3]. Also, CDC guidelines promote universal, routine screening of all individuals aged 13 to 64 in health care settings [
4]. However, many African Americans have limited access to health care due to a myriad of barriers (e.g., mistrust of providers and lack of insurance). Increasing reach of routine HIV testing to African Americans in medical and community settings will be critical to achieving national goals. …
