“It’s quick and it’s easy. It reduces work for health workers and improves the client’s experience at the same time,” says CCP's Thomas Ofem. “It’s making decisions in real time and getting results.”
“Many men are not going into the health centers. Somehow you need to bring the test to them,” says CCP's Danielle Naugle. “We need to make it as easy as possible for them to be tested."
“I have heard some girls saying, 'We now want guys who are circumcised, we no longer want the uncircumcised ones as they may have [HIV/AIDS]’,” one uncircumcised 16-year-old from Zimbabwe told researchers.
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