Effect of clients Strategic Index Case Testing on community-based detection of HIV infections (STRICT study)

STRICT identifies the need for reaching out to sexual partners of index clients and providing them with HIV Testing Services (HTS) as they belong to a high risk priority population and also linking them to care and treatment. This group of people must be reached with HTS strategies in order to end the HIV epidemic as evidenced by high sero-prevalence of 51% among them.