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Review
. 2014 Jul;18 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):S445-9.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-014-0831-y.

A review of the evidence of harm from self-tests

Annette N Brown  1 , Eric W Djimeu, Drew B Cameron
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Review

A review of the evidence of harm from self-tests

Annette N Brown et al. AIDS Behav. 2014 Jul.

Abstract

Although HIV self-testing may overcome some barriers to HIV testing, various stakeholders have expressed concerns that HIV self-testing may lead to unintended harm, including psychological, social and medical harm. Recognizing that similar concerns were raised in the past for some other self-tests, we conduct a review of the literature on a set of self-tests that share some characteristics with HIV self-tests to determine whether there is any evidence of harm. We find that although the potential for harm is discussed in the literature on self-tests, there is very little evidence that such harm occurs.

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