Lessons learnt from the first Australian ‘pop-up’ HIV testing site
Marianne Gale A B H , Jo Holden C , Samara Kitchener C , Vickie Knight D E , Anna McNulty B D , Karen Price F , Craig Leeman G , Philip Cunningham G , Andrew Hayen B and C. Raina MacInytre BA Public Health Officer Training Program, New South Wales Ministry of Health, 73 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia.
B School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
C Centre for Population Health, New South Wales Ministry of Health, 73 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia.
D Sydney Sexual Health Centre, South East Sydney Local Health District, PO Box 1614, Sydney, NSW 2001 Australia.
E Kirby Institute, Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
F ACON, 414 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia.
G NSW State Reference Laboratory, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
H Corresponding author. Email: mgale@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
Sexual Health 11(6) 585-586 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH14095
Submitted: 29 May 2014 Accepted: 6 September 2014 Published: 24 November 2014
Abstract
Lessons learnt from the first ‘pop-up’ HIV testing site in Australia suggest that highly visible testing activity was acceptable in the context of inner Sydney and that pop-up sites may be a useful adjunct to clinic-based models. Further evaluation of alternative testing models is needed to inform the scale up of HIV testing in Australia.
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[3] Knight V, Gale M, Guy R, Parkhill N, Holden J, Leeman C, et al A novel time-limited pop-up HIV testing service for gay men in Sydney, Australia, attracts high-risk men. Sex Health 2014; 11 345–50.
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