A Review of the Evidence of Harm from Self-Tests

作者：Brown Annette N; Djimeu Eric W^*; Cameron Drew B

来源：AIDS and Behavior, 2014, 18(S4): S445-S449.

DOI：10.1007/s10461-014-0831-y

• HIV self-testing
• Harm
• Self examinations
• Self tests

Although HIV self-testing may overcome some barriers to HIV testing, various stakeholders have expressed concerns that HIV self-testing may lead to unintended harm, including psychological, social and medical harm. Recognizing that similar concerns were raised in the past for some other self-tests, we conduct a review of the literature on a set of self-tests that share some characteristics with HIV self-tests to determine whether there is any evidence of harm. We find that although the potential for harm is discussed in the literature on self-tests, there is very little evidence that such harm occurs.

• 出版日期2014-7