HIV Counselling and Testing
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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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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Acceptability of HIV counselling and testing among tuberculosis patients in south Ethiopia
... We did this study under routine care conditions. The find- ings may thus be extrapolated to other similar settings. However, since we did not study reasons related to the infrastructure or personnel related factors, we ...
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Linkage to HIV care after home-based HIV counselling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.
... Home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBHCT) has the potential to increase HIV testing uptake in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but data on linkage to HIV care after HBHCT are ...
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Brief counselling after home-based HIV counselling and testing strongly increases linkage to care: a cluster-randomized trial in Uganda.
... whether counselling provided subsequent to HIV testing and referral for care increases linkage to care among HIV-positive persons identified through home-based HIV counselling ...
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention versus the standard (facility based) HIV testing strategy in rural South Africa
... activity HIV counselling contributed 57% towards the total cost, a percentage lower than the 80% share in clinic ...and HIV testing activities were once again in the personnel costs for the ...
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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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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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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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School-based HIV counselling and testing: providing a youth friendly service.
... prevent HIV and to provide a gateway for access to care (UNAIDS, ...where HIV prevalence is high, there has been a shift in the emphasis from prevention to care because the aim is to test as many people in ...
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Uptake of Workplace HIV Counselling and Testing: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Zimbabwe
... of HIV testing in Africa from its current low level and that providing VCT intermittently might be as effective as continuous ...to testing can translate into a major difference in test ...linked ...
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A comparison of linkage to HIV care after provider initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) versus voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) for patients with sexually transmitted infections in Cape Town, South Africa
... load testing was limited to only those who had CD4 test records and this would missed those patients who initiated ART without having a CD4 test done, based on their clinical symptoms ...
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Task-shifting HIV counselling and testing services in Zambia: the role of lay counsellors
... Most health facilities did not have staff dedicated to pro- viding CT services – meaning that clients seeking the serv- ice may not have a HCW available to provide the service. By focusing specifically on the CT aspect ...
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Can a routine peri-partum HIV counselling and testing service for women improve access to HIV prevention, early testing and treatment of children?
... to HIV-positive mothers” is a true reflection of the number of HIV-positive women who ...to HIV-positive women” at RMMCH? How big is the gap between the total delivering population and the population ...
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HIV/AIDS knowledge and uptake of HIV counselling and testing among undergraduate private university students in Accra, Ghana
... for HIV and willing to test for HIV in the ...for HIV and 93% were willing to test for HIV in the future than those who were ...Additionally, HIV testing among the sample has ...
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Linkage to HIV care after home-based HIV counselling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.
... diagnosed HIV-positive adults (≥18 years) who had a potential minimum follow-up period corresponding to the time point when linkage was assessed ...as HIV disease stage or CD4 count at the time of ...
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A qualitative analysis of the barriers and facilitators of HIV counselling and testing perceived by adolescents in South Africa
... associated HIV-related stigma and dis- ...around HIV and HCT by integrating testing into general and sexual reproductive health services will go some way to de- creasing fears around testing, ...
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Factors affecting HIV counselling and testing among Ethiopian women aged 15–49
... HIV/AIDS-related knowledge The participant’s knowledge on all specific measured parameters was higher among urban than among rural women both in terms of HIV prevention and means of transmission. About half ...
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How Follow-Up Counselling Increases Linkage to Care Among HIV-Positive Persons Identified Through Home-Based HIV Counselling and Testing: A Qualitative Study in Uganda
... follow-up counselling had increased linkage to HIV care in a trial of referral to care and follow- up counseling, compared to referral to care only, for participants diagnosed as HIV-positive through ...
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