Willingness to Participate in At-Home HIV Testing Among Young Adults Who Use Opioids in Rural Appalachia

April M. Ballard; Regine Haardöerfer; Nadya Prood; Chukwudi Mbagwu; Hannah L.F. Cooper; April M. Young

doi:10.1007/s10461-020-03034-6

Willingness to Participate in At-Home HIV Testing Among Young Adults Who Use Opioids in Rural Appalachia

April M. Ballard, Regine Haardöerfer, Nadya Prood, Chukwudi Mbagwu, Hannah L.F. Cooper, April M. Young

Epidemiology & Environmental Health

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Abstract

New HIV infections associated with injection drug use are of major concern in rural US communities. This study explores acceptability of, consent for, and uptake of free at-home HIV testing among people who use drugs (PWUD) in one of the nation’s epicenters for drug-related harms and HIV vulnerability: Rural Central Appalachia. Eligible participants were 18–35 years old, lived in Appalachian Kentucky, and reported using opioids to get high in the previous 30 days. A majority reported being likely (63.6%, 96/151) to take a free at-home HIV tests and 66.9% (101/151) consented to receive one. Among those who were randomly selected to receive a Home Access HIV-1 test kit (n = 37), 37.8% mailed in blood spots and 21.6% called to receive results. This study provides evidence that PWUD may be willing to take an at-home test, but other barriers may inhibit actual completion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	699-708
Number of pages	10
Journal	AIDS and Behavior
Volume	25
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-03034-6
State	Published - Mar 2021

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Funding

This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21 DA042727; principal investigators (PIs): Cooper and Young). Community partners who provided feedback during the development of the survey were identified through an ongoing study supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Appalachian Regional Commission (UG3 DA044798; PIs: Young and Cooper); the content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, CDC, SAMHSA, or ARC. The authors thank community researchers, Mary Beth Lawson, Travis Green, and Cindy Jolly for assistance with survey administration and logistics, Kevin Tillman for literature review assistance, as well as the Emory Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI050409; PIs: del Rio, Curran, Hunter), Nicole Luisi, and Danielle Lambert for technical support with survey programming.

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National Institute on Drug Abuse	R21DA042727

Keywords

HIV
Home-based testing
Rural health
Substance-related disorders

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Social Psychology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infectious Diseases

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