Scale-up of GetCheckedOnline: Examining how public health policies impact the context for ongoing program implementation

Using an institutional ethnography approach, we examined contextual factors shaping the ongoing implementation of GetCheckedOnline—BC’s internet-based testing program for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). The study revealed that targeted policy premised on biomedical HIV exceptionalism such as the provincial 2012 HIV framework paradoxically opens opportunities for scale-up of STBBI programming like GetCheckedOnline while closing other possibilities over the implementation cycle. This study underscores the need for policy frameworks not to remain static, draws attention to the ways in which policy can foreclose public health service availability, and encourages ongoing critical policy scrutiny to promote change. TEAM Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Kinnon R. MacKinnon, Devon Haag, Sophie Bannar-Martin, Maja Karlsson, Catherine Worthington, Mark Gilbert, Daniel Grace

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