Published on in Vol 14 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/62929, first published .
Barriers and Facilitators to HIV and Viral Hepatitis Testing in Primary Health Care Settings in the Kyrgyz Republic (BarTest): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Barriers and Facilitators to HIV and Viral Hepatitis Testing in Primary Health Care Settings in the Kyrgyz Republic (BarTest): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Barriers and Facilitators to HIV and Viral Hepatitis Testing in Primary Health Care Settings in the Kyrgyz Republic (BarTest): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Ida Sperle   1 , MSc, MSAE, Dr rer med ;   Nikolay Lunchenkov   1, 2 , MD, MSc ;   Zuridin S Nurmatov   3 , MD, PhD ;   Aybek A Bekbolotov   3 , MD ;   Anastassiya Stepanovich-Falke   1 , MSc ;   Michael Brandl   1 , MSc ;   Olena Kysil   1 , MSc, PhD ;   Stela Bivol   4 , MPH, MD ;   Viviane Bremer   1 , MD, PhD ;   Barbara Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer   1 , DVM ;   Sandra Dudareva   1, 5 , MSc, MSAE, Dr med

1 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

2 TUM School of Social Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

3 National Institute of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

4 World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

5 Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia

Corresponding Author:

  • Ida Sperle, MSc, MSAE, Dr rer med
  • Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Robert Koch Institute
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