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    at the 5th Congress of family medicine, Nice, E-poster N o CDD077 at the 6th Congress of the International Aids Society

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    Abstract Background. -In France, around 50,000 people were unaware of their HIV positivity at the end of 2008. The latest guidelines recommend routine screening of all adults. Family physicians have been identified as key persons for this new policy. Rapid HIV tests (RHT) have been proposed as an alternative to conventional blood tests. Objectives. -The authors assessed the feasibility and acceptability of RHT test based screening in French community practice. Method. -We made a prospective interventional study of the BioMerieux VIKIA ® HIV 1/2 RHT among French family physicians. Data on the RHT was posted in the physician's waiting room. Results. -Sixty-two French physicians, mostly family practitioners, included 383 patients with a mean age of 36.2 years, from June to October 2010. Twenty-two percent (83) of these patients had never been tested for HIV. The RHT was proposed and 382 tests were accepted and performed (acceptability rate of 99.7%). Sixty-five percent of the tests were made on the patient's request. The tested population represented 1.5% of consulting patients during the study period (feasibility rate). Patients were quite satisfied but physicians less so. Test steps and capillary blood sampling were the main source of difficulty mentioned. At the end of the study, 59% of physicians were ready to continue using RHT in their daily practice. Conclusion. -Routine RHT screening in community practice is feasible and well accepted by patients. It was the first screening test for 22% of our patients. Its feasibility was limited by capillary blood sampling technique and time constraints during consultation. © 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Author's personal copy 554 R. Gauthier et al. / Médecine et maladies infectieuses 42 (2012) 553-560 Méthode. -Étude prospective interventionnelle d'évaluation du TROD VIKIA ® HIV 1/2 de BioMerieux en consultation. L'information sur le TROD VIH est affichée en salle d'attente. Résultats. -De juin à octobre 2010, 62 médecins, en majorité généraliste, ont inclus 383 adultes âgés en moyenne de 36,2 ans. Parmi eux 22 % (83) n'avaient jamais été dépistés. Le TROD a été proposé avec une acceptabilité excellente à 99,7 %, un seul l'a refusé. Le TROD est demandé par les patients dans 65 % des cas. Le taux de réalisation (faisabilité) atteint 1,5 % des patients adultes qui consultent ignorant leur statut pour le VIH. Les patients sont très satisfaits de la procédure. Pour les médecins moins satisfaits, étapes du test et technique de recueil du sang capillaire constituent les principales difficultés. En fin d'étude, 59 % d'entre eux se disent prêts à continuer d'utiliser le TROD VIH dans leur pratique. Conclusion. -Le dépistage par TROD VIH en médecine de ville est réalisable et bien accepté par les patients. Premier test pour 22 % de nos patients, sa faisabilité est limitée par les difficultés de prélèvement et sa chronophagie dans la consultation
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