Community-based interventions to increase HIV testing among Black women

Key take-home messages

• There are few studies that examine the effectiveness of community-based interventions on HIV testing among Black women.
• HIV testing interventions in high-income settings are usually conducted in combination with risk reduction counselling.
• Home-based voluntary counselling and testing may substantially increase awareness of HIV status (up to 70%) in previously undiagnosed women in sub-Saharan Africa, making this approach both feasible and effective.
• Adding mobile HIV counselling and testing to existing stand-alone services in sub-Saharan Africa appears to be cost-effective and a great way to expand testing coverage.

• Population(s)
  • Women
  • Ethnoracial communities
  • General HIV+ population
  • General HIV- population
• Testing
  • Testing
• Health Systems
  • Delivery arrangements