Acceptability and Usability of Blood-Based and Oral Fluid HCV Self-Testing Among Men-Who-Have-Sex-with-Men and Transgender Women on PrEP
Hugo Perazzo, Sandra W Cardoso, Thiago S Torres, Daniel Bezerra, Ketiuce Zukeram, Marcos Benedetti, Julio Moreira, Brenda Hoagland, Cristina Pimenta, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdilea G Veloso · 2026
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Description
Hugo Perazzo and colleagues road-test hepatitis C self-testing kits with men who have sex with men and transgender women in Rio de Janeiro. All 250 who took part were on PrEP, the preventive HIV medicine, and each person tried both a blood-based kit and a mouth-fluid kit on the same day under watch. Their 2026 study logged where people stumbled, what they got wrong, and which kit they liked.
The blood kit tripped more people up: close to two thirds needed help at some step, most often adding the buffer or drawing blood with the dropper. The mouth kit's main slip was a wrong fluid collection. Readings agreed well when kits were re-read or repeated, and nearly everyone said they felt safe and would test again. Mouth fluid was the slight favorite overall.
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| CREATOR | Hugo Perazzo, Sandra W Cardoso, Thiago S Torres, Daniel Bezerra, Ketiuce Zukeram, Marcos Benedetti, Julio Moreira, Brenda Hoagland, Cristina Pimenta, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdilea G Veloso |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47124 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |