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Malawi villagers embrace HIV self-testing

Malawi villagers embrace HIV self-testing

WHO - "Malawi has one of the highest HIV rates, with an estimated 1 in 10 people living with HIV. Most of those people living with HIV remain unaware of their status. According to the Malawi Ministry of Health, only 1 in 3 Malawians were tested for HIV in 2015.

With a large part of the population still unaware of their HIV infection, efforts to prevent new infections and further transmission of HIV are under-utilized and continue to undermine the country's achievements in curbing new infections and deaths.

(...) HIV self-testing has the potential to jump-start the scale-up of HIV testing, a necessary development to reach the global target of 90% coverage by 2020."(Photo: WHO/E.Gauss)

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