Expanding Access to Non-Medicalized Community-Based Rapid Testing to Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Urgent HIV Prevention Intervention (The ANRS-DRAG Study)

Nicolas Lorente (1) , Marie Preau (1, 2) , Chantal Vernay-Vaisse (3) , Marion Mora (1, 4) , Jerome Blanche (1) , Joanne Otis (5) , Alain Passeron (6) , Marie Le Gall (7) , Philippe Dhotte (8) , Maria Patrizia Carrieri (4, 1) , Marie Suzan-Monti (1, 4) , Bruno Spire (1, 4)

1 SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale
2 GRePS - Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie Sociale
3 Conseil General des Bouches du Rhone, Marseille, France
4 ORS PACA
5 UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal
6 Conseil General des Alpes Maritimes, Nice, France,
7 Dep Nutrition - BREST - Département de Nutrition
8 CDAG - Centre de dépistage anonyme et gratuit du Figuier

Background: Little is known about the public health benefits of community-based, non-medicalized rapid HIV testing offers (CBOffer) specifically targeting men who have sex with men (MSM), compared with the standard medicalized HIV testing offer (SMOffer) in France. This study aimed to verify whether such a CBOffer, implemented in voluntary counselling and testing centres, could improve access to less recently HIV-tested MSM who present a risk behaviour profile similar to or higher than MSM tested with the SMOffer.

Mots clés: HIV; rapid-testing

Domaines: Psychologie

Nicolas Lorente, Marie Preau, Chantal Vernay-Vaisse, Marion Mora, Jerome Blanche, et al.. Expanding Access to Non-Medicalized Community-Based Rapid Testing to Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Urgent HIV Prevention Intervention (The ANRS-DRAG Study). PLoS ONE, 2013, 39, pp.446 - 446. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0061225.t003⟩. ⟨halshs-01562544⟩