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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

HIV: Interventions to Identify HIV-Positive People Through Partner Notification – by Provider Referral

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: February 2005

Workgroups: HIV Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends provider referral partner notification to increase HIV testing and identification of previously undiagnosed HIV-positive individuals. Partner counseling and referral services involve voluntary disclosure of sexual or needle-sharing partners by a patient diagnosed with HIV infection. Providers or other professionals then notify partners of HIV exposure. Ideally, partners are tested and receive prevention or risk reduction counseling — or enter into care if they test positive. 

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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Reduce the number of new HIV infections — HIV‑01
Improving
Increase knowledge of HIV status — HIV‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce the number of new HIV diagnoses — HIV‑03
Little or no detectable change
Increase linkage to HIV medical care — HIV‑04
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2020). HIV: Interventions to Identify HIV-Positive People Through Partner Notification – by Provider Referral. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/hivaids-interventions-identify-hiv-positive-people-through-partner-notification-provider