Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of integrating screening for gender-based violence into HIV counselling and testing for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania and South Africa

• Main Authors: Manuela Colombini (Author), Fiona Scorgie (Author), Anne Stangl (Author), Sheila Harvey (Author), Lethabo Ramskin (Author), Nomhle Khoza (Author), Emma Mashauri (Author), Deborah Baron (Author), Shelley Lees (Author), Saidi Kapiga (Author), Charlotte Watts (Author), Sinead Delany-Moretlwe (Author), on behalf of the EMPOWER study team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Gender-based violence (GBV) undermines HIV prevention and treatment cascades, particularly among women who report partner violence. Screening for violence during HIV testing, and prior to offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV uninfected women, provides an opportunity to...