"Meet people where they are": a qualitative study of community barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and HIV self-testing among African Americans in urban and rural areas in North Carolina

• Main Authors: Allison Mathews (Author), Samantha Farley (Author), Donaldson F. Conserve (Author), Kimberly Knight (Author), Alston Le'Marus (Author), Meredith Blumberg (Author), Stuart Rennie (Author), Joseph Tucker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background HIV testing programs in the United States aim to reach ethnic minority populations who experience high incidence of HIV, yet 40% of African Americans have never been tested for HIV. The objective of this study is to identify community-based strategies to increase testing among Af...