Implementation tools

Tools for implementing network-based testing (NBT) can help health-care workers and others engaged in network-based testing services in:

• offering network-based testing services;
• conducting informed consent;
• conducting intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment;
• elicitation of contacts;
• communicating calmly and clearly with partners and other contacts;
• determining which tests and other services should be offered; and
• and tracking contact attempts and testing and linkage outcomes.

This page provides examples of different types of tools that may be helpful for network-based testing services. These can and should be adapted to local setting and population.

Partner services tools

SOPs and protocols

SOPs help to guide and standardize the process of network-based testing.

Partner services SOP (MS Word, 260 kB)
(National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)

Partner services SOP (MS Word, 40 kB)
(University of Washington)

Intimate partner violence SOP
(Linkages Program, FHI360)

Guides

Guides provide direction on how to implement each step in network-based testing.

STI contact tracing tool
(Australasia Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM))

Scripts

Scripts are helpful in ensuring that language used is appropriate, normalizing, and effective at elicitation.

Talking points for partner & family testing services  (PDF, 260 kB)

Partner services tracking sheet (MS Word, 260 kB) 
(ICAP at Columbia University)

Tips for partner services discussions (MS Word, 260 kB)

Partner services informed consent – written (MS Word, 120 kB)

Partner services informed consent – verbal (MS Word, 20 kB)

Enhanced peer outreach approach implementation guide (PDF, 1.8 Mb)
(Linkages Program, FHI360)

Social network coaching guide (MS Word, 25 kB)

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