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PLOS Glob Public Health
September 2025
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada.
For digital health interventions, the "gold standard" of evaluating effectiveness is the randomized control trial (RCT). Yet, RCT methodology presents issues such as precluding changes to the technology during the study period as well as the use of study settings that do not reflect "real world" contexts. In this paper, we draw on empirical material from our ethnographic research on an app-based program called HIVSmart!, which is a digital strategy designed to support people in the process of HIV self-testing.
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September 2025
Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY, USA.
Self-testing for HIV is an accessible, effective testing method for clinical and research contexts. From 2017 to 2022, we conducted annual, mail-in HIV testing with participants in our U.S.
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December 2025
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Climate-related extreme weather events (EWE) affect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) outcomes through complex and multi-level pathways. These include institutional-level effects on health systems, such as damaged health infrastructure and roads, barriers to retaining qualified health and care workers, as well as healthcare access barriers due to increased economic precarity, displacement and migration. Furthermore, EWE effects on SRHR disproportionately affect marginalised communities.
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September 2025
Genitourinary Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
Objective: To assess the views of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) on acceptability of using meatal swabs compared with first-catch urine (FCU), and acceptability and accuracy of pooling three-site samples compared with individually analysed samples, for gonorrhoea and chlamydia detection, using a questionnaire.
Methods: Prospective, convenience, sample of MSM/TGW attending UK sexual health clinic. Randomised order of self-taken samples from the pharynx and rectum, plus self-taken penile-meatal swab and FCU, for gonorrhoea and chlamydia detection.
AIDS Educ Prev
August 2025
Department of Public Health, Purdue University.
HIV and STI incidence are disproportionately elevated among sexual minority men (SMM) and Native American (NA) men in rural Oklahoma. The present study is a formative assessment of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in Rural Oklahoma (e-HERO) project, which is part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative. EHE has an overarching goal of reducing incidence rates of HIV and STIs in rural Oklahoma.
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