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Barriers to HIV testing: a survey of GUM clinic attendees
  1. F Burns1,
  2. C H Mercer1,
  3. D Mercey1,
  4. S T Sadiq1,
  5. B Curran2,
  6. P Kell2
  1. 1Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL, London, UK
  2. 2Archway Sexual Health Clinic, Camden Primary Care Trust, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr F Burns
 Mortimer Market Centre, Off Capper Street, London WC1E 6AU, UK; fburnsgum.ucl.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.2003.007682

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    HIV testing forms an important part of the national strategy for sexual health and HIV of the UK government. It proposes that all genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic patients who are attending for “their first screening for sexually transmitted infections”1 should be offered an HIV test. Previous research has suggested that uptake of HIV testing in antenatal clinics is midwife dependent and possibly doctor dependent within the context of the GUM clinic.2,3 The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with being offered an HIV test and having an HIV test in an inner city sexual health clinic with a universal HIV testing policy before publication of the government’s national strategy …

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    • Sources of support: Funding for data entry from Archway Sexual Health Clinic.

    • Conflict of interest: none.

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      Sexually Transmitted Infections 2005; 81 94-94 Published Online First: 28 Jan 2005.