Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics - Underserved Populations (RADx-UP): Project IMPROVE: Implementing Community-Engaged Intervention Research to Increase Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Self-Testing Among Diverse Underserved and Vulnerable Asian Americans. Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics - Underserved Populations (RADx-UP): Project IMPROVE: Implementing Community-Engaged Intervention Research to Increase Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Self-Testing Among Diverse Underserved and Vulnerable Asian Americans

Low-Income Asian Americans (AA) with limited English proficiency (LEP) represent a meaningful proportion of low-wage frontline workers in essential service industries. Many also live in multigenerational households with crowded conditions and with their elderly relatives in ethnic neighborhoods, areas that have experienced high rates of COVID-19 infection. Unfortunately, AAs have encountered numerous barriers to COVID-19 testing across individual, provider/health system and community/societal levels, including anti-Asian racism and discrimination, fear of safety at test sites and on public transportation, lack of health insurance, lack of culturally and language-appropriate COVID-19 information and navigation, and limited access to COVID-19 testing sites. As a result, AAs have the... (for more see dbGaP study page.)