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Spanish pharmacy HIV testing programme detects many new infections
Gus Cairns, 2015-09-16 10:00:00
A programme in which cheap, 30-minute HIV tests were offered in local pharmacy shops in three Spanish regions, diagnosed over 200 new infections, amounting to 10.6% of all HIV diagnoses in the three regions during the study period.
The programme was particularly successful at reaching heterosexual men, who amounted to nearly half of those who tested. Seventy per cent of the more than 50 heterosexual men who tested HIV-positive had never taken a test before, with HIV prevalence in heterosexual men higher in non-testers than previous testers.
HIV prevalence in the gay men who tested was 40% higher than in regional estimates of HIV prevalence.
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