Session 29-Themed Discussion
Themed Discussion: Novel Approaches to Testing and Linkage to Care
Wednesday, 1-2 pm; Room 613
    1131

Acceptability and Ease of Use of Home Self-testing for HIV among MSM
David Katz1, M Golden1,2, J Hughes1, C Farquhar1, and J Stekler1,2
1Univ of Washington, Seattle, US and 2Publ Hlth-Seattle & King County, WA, US
    1132 Enhanced Targeted HIV Screening Using the Denver HIV Risk Score Outperforms the Emergency Department Nontargeted Screening
Jason Haukoos1,2,3, E Hopkins1, B Bender1, A Al-Tayyib4, M Thrun4, and the Denver Emergency Dept HIV Testing Res Consortium
1Denver Hlth Med Ctr, CO, US; 2Univ of Colorado Sch of Med, Aurora, US; 3Colorado Sch of Publ Hlth, Aurora, US; and 4Denver Publ Hlth, CO, US
    1133

Widespread Routine HIV Screening in the Emergency Department: Is It Time to Move Back to Diagnostic Testing?
Mehri McKellar, T Hill, A Hendricks, M Washington, J Underwood, J Hogan, T Chin, C Gerardo, and C Hicks
Duke Univ Med Ctr, Durham, NC, US
    1134 Outcomes in a Routine Linkage-to-care Strategy and an Enhanced Strategy with Accelerated ART Start; Community-based HIV Testing and Point-of-care CD4: Rural Uganda:
Gabriel Chamie1, D Kwarisiima2, J Kabami3, T Clark1, V Jain1, D Black1, E Geng1, E Charlebois4, M Kamya5, and D Havlir1
1Univ of California, San Francisco and San Francisco Gen Hosp, US; 2Mulago-Mbarara Teaching Hosp Joint AIDS Prgm, Kampala, Uganda; 3Makerere Univ-Univ of California, San Francisco Res Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda; 4Ctr for AIDS Prevention Studies, Univ of California, San Francisco, US; and 5Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda
    1135

High Testing Uptake and Linkages to HIV Treatment through Home-based HIV Counseling and Testing and Facilitated Referral: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Heidi van Rooyen1, Z Phakathi1, M Krows2, T Hong2, R Barnabas2,3, J Baeten2, and C Celum2,3
1Human Sci Res Council, Sweetwaters, South Africa; 2Univ of Washington, Seattle, US; and 3Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res Ctr, Seattle, WA, US