What do these findings mean?
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Index HIVST is a useful tool to increase HIV testing among sexual partners of ART clients in Malawi, where the majority ART clients were married and already disclosed their HIV status to their partners.Index HIVST may be most successful for treatment uptake when implemented alongside other strategies to increase access and demand for treatment services.Our sample size was not powered on secondary outcomes and did not allow for disagregatted findings by key variables such as relationship status or status disclosure. Additional research is needed to assess if index HIVST is acceptable and impactful in settings with less stable relationships and lower rates of status disclosure.In a randomized controlled trial from Malawi, Kathryn Dovel and colleagues, investigate the impact of HIV self-testing in partners of people taking antiretroviral therapy.