Universal HIV testing and the impact of late diagnosis on disease stage among adults in urban Ethiopia

• Published in: Tropical Medicine and Health
• Main Authors: Yimam Getaneh, Jemal Ayalew, Qianxin He, Adamu Tayachew, Abdur Rashid, Desta Kassa, Sileshi Leulseged, Lingjie Liao, Feng Yi, Yiming Shao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2023
• Subjects: Disease stage; HIV/AIDS; Late diagnosis; Universal testing; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Utt
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-023-00494-z; https://doaj.org/article/a0a81341200740c19a29f5c834d7e3fe

Abstract Background Treatment as prevention evolved into the universal HIV test-and-treat (UTT) strategy, which entails testing to the general population and treatment to every people living with HIV. We investigated universal testing (UT) performance and its determinants in urban Ethiopia and explo...