Achieving universal HIV testing and counselling
Utilization of HIV Counselling and Testing Services in Urban and Rural Communities in Eastern Region of Ghana: Implications for Achieving Universal HCT Coverage
... an HIV test was fear. This expression of fear was in relation to testing positive and the possibility of being rejected by significant others such as family members and ...of testing positive, fear ...
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Achieving universal testing for malaria
... diagnostic testing in the African region increased from 41% in 2010 to 65% in ...where testing is rarely done, 7 and this situation seems to be replicated in other African ...
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Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing
... voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) not only enables and encourages people with HIV to access appropriate care but has been demonstrated to be effective in HIV ...keeping HIV ...
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Provider-initiated HIV Testing and Counselling
... for HIV than they ...with HIV have access to treatment, care, support and prevention ...their HIV status and their ...of HIV testing and counselling ...
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HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counselling and Testing
... The impetus for developing policy has arisen from donor pressure coupled with the increasing need to provide a legal framework for implementing programmes. Developing HIV/AIDS policy has overall been a ...
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Acceptability of intrapartum HIV counselling and testing in Cameroon
... unknown HIV status and the number of mother-infant pairs who receive treatment for preventing mother-to- child transmission of ...intrapartum HIV testing and counselling in rural areas in ...
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Acceptability of intrapartum HIV counselling and testing in Cameroon
... unknown HIV status and the number of mother-infant pairs who receive treatment for preventing mother-to- child transmission of ...intrapartum HIV testing and counselling in rural areas in ...
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SCALING-UP HIV TESTING AND COUNSELLING SERVICES
... of HIV tests and medicines for underfunded ...of testing services. Furthermore, many rapid HIV tests have short shelf-lives after the date of ...
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An assessment of voluntary counselling and testing/ HIV testing and counselling services at health facilities in South Africa
... of HIV and AIDS is critical, therefore, if VCT/ HCT services are strongly supported in the community they can be implemented ...on HIV prevalence which is generated through blood tests on a sample of the ...
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Understanding the role of HIV testing and counselling services in HIV prevention in rural Tanzania
... numbers testing overall, the greatest numbers of HIV-positive individuals learned their status via CO-HTC (although we may have underestimated the overall numbers diagnosed at WI-HTC and ANC- HTC, due to ...
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Effect of follow-up counselling after HIV diagnosis through homebased HIV counselling and testing on linkage to HIV care in southwestern Uganda
... >80% power to detect a hazard ratio of 1.7 for the effect of the intervention on time to linkage [19]. Analysis All analyses were pre-specified in an analysis plan. The primary analyses were intention- to-treat and based ...
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Evaluation of the HIV lay counselling and testing profession in South Africa
... standardised counselling and testing training, designated working areas to maintain privacy and confidentiality, and specific coun- selling skills for marginal ...for HIV counselling and ...
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IMPROVING QUALITY OF SERVICES AT HIV/AIDS COUNSELLING & TESTING CENTRES
... better counselling of the counsellors to tackle difficult situational problems, congenial and stress-free working conditions for the counsellors, periodic ongoing structured supervision, periodic refresher ...
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Opportunities for strengthening provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV in Namibia
... provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV (PITC) in Namibia and identifies key opportunities for strengthening this vital aspect of the national HIV ...rapid testing rooms ...
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Does provider initiated HIV testing and counselling lead to higher HIV testing rate and HIV case finding in Rwandan clinics?
... Limitations Our study had some limitations. The study was con- ducted in eight clinics that were purposely chosen to be different in several respects (urban-rural, relatively high vs. relatively low HIV ...
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Barriers and facilitators associated with HIV testing uptake in South African health facilities offering HIV Counselling and Testing
... for HIV testing Despite the many HIV/AIDS education campaigns that have been provided in the past, the participants in the current study reported that having campaigns at schools, workplaces and over ...
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Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi
... found HIV self-testers reported higher VAS scores than those who tested in facility ...services. HIV self-testers do not have their test result communicated to them by a HIV counsellor, and the ...
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Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self testing and facility based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi
... found HIV self-testers reported higher VAS scores than those who tested in facility ...services. HIV self-testers do not have their test result communicated to them by a HIV counsellor, and the ...
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Listening in HIV counselling and testing: hearer signals in rural patient-counsellor HIV consultation
... in HIV counselling and testing consultations in state health care facilities in rural communities in the Western ...voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) 2 consultations in which a ...
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Vermont Guidelines for Universal HIV Counseling and Voluntary HIV Testing for Pregnant Women
... Rapid testing in labor and delivery has become the common practice for situations where the woman’s HIV status is ...Rapid testing in labor and delivery can provide preliminary results in less than ...
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