COVID Community-Engaged Testing in Alabama: Reaching Underserved Rural Populations Through Collaboration.

Publisher: American Public Health Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1254074 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-0048 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00900036 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Public Health Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Washington, DC : American Public Health Association
Original Publication: New York [etc.]

COVID-19*/diagnosis ; COVID-19*/epidemiology ; Rural Population*; Alabama ; COVID-19 Testing ; Humans ; Vulnerable Populations

Rural communities are often underserved by public health testing initiatives in Alabama. As part of the National Institutes of Health's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics‒Underserved Populations initiative, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, along with community partners, sought to address this inequity in COVID-19 testing. We describe the participatory assessment, selection, and implementation phases of this project, which administered more than 23 000 COVID-19 tests throughout the state, including nearly 4000 tests among incarcerated populations. ( Am J Public Health . 2022;112(10):1399-1403. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306985).

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Date Created: 20220811 Date Completed: 20220916 Latest Revision: 20231002

20231002

PMC9480487

10.2105/AJPH.2022.306985

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