Pharmacy staff characteristics associated with support for pharmacy-based HIV testing.
Pharmacy staff characteristics associated with support for pharmacy-based HIV testing.
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10.1331/japha.2012.10194
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2012-07
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Fuller C
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Amesty S;Blaney S;Crawford ND;Rivera AV;Fuller C
To determine support of in-pharmacy HIV-testing among pharmacy staff and the individual-level characteristics associated with in-pharmacy HIV testing support. Descriptive, nonexperimental, cross-sectional study. New York City (NYC) during January 2008 to March 2009. 131 pharmacies registered in the Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP) completed a survey. 480 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, owners/managers, and technicians/clerks. Support of in-pharmacy HIV testing. Support of in-pharmacy HIV testing is high among pharmacy staff (79.4%). Pharmacy staff that supported in-pharmacy vaccinations were significantly more likely to support in-pharmacy HIV testing. Pharmacy staff that think that selling syringes to IDUs causes the community to be littered with dirty syringes were significantly less likely to support in-pharmacy HIV testing. Support for in-pharmacy HIV testing is high among our sample of ESAP pharmacy staff actively involved in non-prescription syringe sales. These findings suggest that active ESAP pharmacy staff may be amenable to providing HIV counseling and testing to injection drug users and warrants further investigation.