T Charles Witzel, Emily Jay Nicholls, Leanne McCabe, Peter Weatherburn, Sheena McCormack, Christopher Bonell, Mitzy Gafos, Fiona C Lampe, Andrew Speakman, David Dunn, Denise Ward, Andrew N Phillips, Roger Pebody, Michelle M Gabriel, Yolanda Collaco-Moraes, Alison J Rodger, Fiona M Burns
BACKGROUND: The potential of HIV self-testing (HIVST) to cause harm is a concern hindering widespread implementation. The aim of this paper is to understand the relationship between HIVST and harm in SELPHI (An HIV <u>Sel</u>f-testing <u>P</u>ublic <u>H</u>ealth <u>I</u>ntervention), the largest randomised trial of HIVST in a high-income country to date. METHODS: 10 111 cis and trans men who have sex with men (MSM) recruited online (geolocation social/sexual networking apps, social media), aged 16+, reporting previous anal intercourse and resident in England or Wales were first randomised 60/40 to baseline HIVST (baseline testing, BT) or not (no baseline testing, nBT) (randomisation A)...
December 2023: Sexually Transmitted Infections