Scaling up sexually transmissible infections point-of-care testing in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: healthcare workers’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators

Scaling up sexually transmissible infections point-of-care testing in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: healthcare workers’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators Journal Article

Implementation Science Communications

• Author(s): Lafferty, Lise, Smith, Kirsty, Causer, Louise, Andrewartha, Kelly, Whiley, David, Badman, Steven G., Donovan, Basil, Anderson, Lorraine, Tangey, Annie, Mak, Donna, Maher, Lisa, Shephard, Mark, Guy, Rebecca, Bastian, Lisa, Ward, James, Kaldor, John, Comerford, Crissy, Bushby, Trish, Moore, Liz, Gunathilake, Manoji, Johnson, David, Gallant, Daniel, on behalf of the, Ttango Collaboration
• Published: 2021
• Volume: 2
• ISBN: 2662-2211

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Abstract: Sexually transmissible infections (STIs), such as gonorrhoea and chlamydia, are highly prevalent, particularly in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia. In these settings, due to distance to centralised laboratories, the return of laboratory test results can take a week or longer, and many young people do not receive treatment, or it is considerably delayed. Point-of-care testing (POCT) provides an opportunity for same day diagnosis and treatment. Molecular POC testing for STIs was available at 31 regional or remote primary health care clinic sites through the Test-Treat-And-GO (TANGO2) program. This qualitative study sought to identify barriers and facilitators to further scaling up STI POCT in remote Aboriginal communities within Australia.

• Urls: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-021-00232-8
• Keywords: Sexually transmissible infections (STIs), Point of care testing (POCT), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Acceptability, Scaling up, Qualitative research