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Locations
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Hospital GUM clinic
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Community sites
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Model adopted for POCT
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Opportunistic screening
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Outreach case finding
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Dependent on client self-presentation to service
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Dependent on service providers promoting uptake of POCT
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Groups targeted
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Patients for STI services
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Drug users
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Sexual assault patients
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Asylum-seekers
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MSM
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Homeless people
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Sex-workers
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Travellers
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UK Africans
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Key successes highlighted by service providers
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Rapid availability of results for traumatised clients
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Outreach to encourage uptake amongst marginalised and at risk groups
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Universal screening
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Giving positive and negative POCT results to clients
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Integration within nurse and healthcare assistant departmental working patterns
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Opportunities for incorporating prevention messages
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Key challenges highlighted by service providers
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Time demands of POCT
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Onward client referral systems
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Emotional impact of performing large number of HIV tests
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Laboratory quality assurance systems
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Need to take further venous blood samples (e.g. for syphilis screening)
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