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We describe large\u2010scale implementation of aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> and overall programmatic achievements in a resource\u2010limited setting through 2015.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Methods<\/jats:title>CBCHS<\/jats:styled-content> trained health advisors (HA<\/jats:styled-content>s) from 16 CBCHS<\/jats:styled-content> facilities and 22 non\u2010CBCHS<\/jats:styled-content> facilities to integrate aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> into their existing jobs in five of the ten Cameroon regions. HA<\/jats:styled-content>s recorded basic demographic, clinical and risk factor information from consenting index persons (IP<\/jats:styled-content>s) and similar information about their sexual partners\u2019\/contact persons (CP<\/jats:styled-content>s) on interview records and aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> registers. These data were entered into an Epi\u2010Info database. HA<\/jats:styled-content>s provided pre\u2010test counselling to CP<\/jats:styled-content>s and offered them HIV<\/jats:styled-content> testing in their home or other location. HA<\/jats:styled-content>s educated IP<\/jats:styled-content>s and CP<\/jats:styled-content>s on HIV<\/jats:styled-content> prevention and risk reduction, and referred IP<\/jats:styled-content>s and HIV<\/jats:styled-content> positive CP<\/jats:styled-content>s to HIV<\/jats:styled-content> care and treatment centres. Starting in 2014, HA<\/jats:styled-content>s re\u2010interviewed IP<\/jats:styled-content>s 30\u00a0days after their initial aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> interview to ascertain instances of social harms following partner notification. Continuous predictor and outcome variables were summarized using median and interquartile range, while categorical variables were summarized using percentages from 2007 to 2015.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>A total of 18,730 IP<\/jats:styled-content>s (71% women) received aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> over nine years. IP<\/jats:styled-content>s identified 21,057 CP<\/jats:styled-content>s (67% men) (mean CP<\/jats:styled-content>\/IP<\/jats:styled-content> 1.12), of whom 12,867 (61.1%) were notified of their exposure to HIV<\/jats:styled-content>. A total of 9202 (71.5% of notified CP<\/jats:styled-content>s) tested for HIV<\/jats:styled-content>, 4764 (51.8%) of whom tested HIV<\/jats:styled-content> positive (number of IP<\/jats:styled-content>s needed to interview\u00a0=\u00a03.9); 3112 (65.3%) HIV<\/jats:styled-content>\u2010positive partners were referred to HIV<\/jats:styled-content> care and treatment centres. Of the 976 IP<\/jats:styled-content>s receiving aPNS<\/jats:styled-content> in 2014 to 2015, for whom follow\u2010up data were available, 11 (1.1%) reported physical intimate partner violence from CP<\/jats:styled-content>s. Thus, 44.3% of 1224 CP<\/jats:styled-content>s were notified through provider referral. 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