Table 2.

Description of Selected British Columbia Ministry of Health Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS Interventions Delivered in 2011–2013

Intervention	Description	Delivery
Hospital-based testing	Integrate the routine offering of HIV testing into clinical practice in hospitals	Simplified pretest guideline while maintaining verbal informed consent Included a new patient follow-up process allowing for post-test counseling, education, public health follow-up, and linkage to care to be delegated to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, communicable disease control nurses
ED testing	Integrate the routine offering of HIV testing into clinical practice in EDs	Introduced similarly as hospital-based testing
Outpatient clinic testing	Increase the routine offering of HIV testing to adult patients who had not been tested in the last year or presented specific risk, clinical symptoms, or the diagnosis of another sexually transmitted disease	Simplified pretest guideline while maintaining verbal informed consent. Consisted of training, continuing medical education credits, approved by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and ongoing in-practice support
ART initiation	Expanded support to help gain access to ART	Low-barrier patient-centric support to liaise with a continuum of health and social services was provided by a multidisciplinary team that included healthcare professionals, social workers, and trained peer navigators
ART retention	Expanded case management to maintain ART adherence and help ART reinitiation among patients who have discontinued ART	When required, one-on-one adherence monitoring and support was provided Following a referral for case management, outreach workers attempted to locate patients who had discontinued ART

The STOP initiative period was 2011–2013.

Abbreviations: ART, highly active antiretroviral treatment; ED, emergency department; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.