{
  "abstract": "Self-collection of specimens and self-testing for the detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are important tools that play a vital role in the prevention, detection and treatment of these infections. Self-collection involves people obtaining their own specimen, either following the guidance of a healthcare professional or completely independently.1 Self-collected samples may be handed to a healthcare professional for further processing, sent to a remote laboratory that returns the test result to the person and/or their healthcare provider or used for self-testing (figure 1). Self-testing is the process by which a person who wants to know their STI status collects a specimen, performs the test and interprets the test result in private, without the support from a healthcare provider.2",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "AVAC, New York, New York, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Alison Footman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Barbara Van Der Pol"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Yukari Carol Manabe"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Khalil G Ghanem"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Departments of Global Health, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Olusegun O Soge"
    }
  ],
  "title": "‘Self-testing’ versus ‘self-collection’: the critical role of consistent language in the field of STI diagnostics",
  "uid": "46426260-e551-5404-b673-e65f55c0d820"
}