Low risk of social harms in an HIV assisted partner services programme in Cameroon

HIV transmission through heterosexual sex and sex between men accounts for majority of new HIV infections [1].Notifying and offering testing services to partners of people living with HIV can be an effective way of reaching people at higher risk of HIV and linking them to care.Assisted partner notification services (aPNS) has been a routine part of HIV care programmes in US and Europe to increase HIV case finding, and has been implemented at a programmatic level in SSA in Cameroon.Increasingly, it is being promoted through the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as a strategy for sexual partner tracing, notification and HIV testing [2][3][4][5][6].