HIV testing and counseling
Acceptability of HIV Testing and Counseling by Antenatal Clients of a Tertiary Institution in Northern Nigeria
... Background: HIV testing and counseling (HTC) plays a central role in specific prevention of moth- er-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions, as these interventions depend on the woman knowing ...
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Association of Khat and alcohol use with HIV infection and age at first sexual initiation among youths visiting HIV testing and counseling centers in Gamo-Gofa Zone, South West Ethiopia
... contracting HIV, and other sexually transmitted diseases, or other psychiatric disorders such as lethargy, hopelessness, and insomnia ...about HIV infection ...
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Adolescents' Preferences Regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Related Physician Counseling and HIV Testing
... education, counseling, and skills training can affect behaviors.9’#{176}69 Therefore, given the high frequency of risky behaviors, the increasing spread of HIV, the lack of physician cou[r] ...
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Deryabina_unc_0153D_16394.pdf
... of HIV care for PWID includes timely and regular HIV testing and counseling (HTC), early enrollment in HIV care and initiation of ART for HIV-positive people and adherence to ...
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The Role of Prenatal Care and Systematic HIV Testing in Preventing Perinatal Transmission in Tanzania, 2011-2012
... for HIV, while only 17% had ...accept HIV testing and ...to testing for the 17% in our study, although a further examination was outside the scope of this ...that HIV counseling ...
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The burden of disease on HIV-infected orphaned and non-orphaned children accessing primary health facilities in a rural district with poor resources in South Africa: a cross-sectional survey of primary caregivers of HIV-infected children aged 5–18 years
... to HIV testing of older children in primary health facilities, it is likely that the true burden of HIV-related infections in undiagnosed children in poor-resource settings is unknown ...of ...
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<p>Study of the possibility of introduction of Kazakhstan NGO-based rapid HIV testing procedures</p>
... groups HIV serological status is usually associated with a beha- vioral model of men and women with high risks, sexual relations, and drug ...to HIV among PUIDs, including a lack of access to sterile ...
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The Uptake and Accuracy of Oral Kits for HIV Self-Testing in High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study in Blantyre, Malawi
... home-based testing for HIV and much higher rates of couple testing than alternative strategies, make it the ideal community arm to complement facility-based routine provider-initiated testing ...
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Health Care Providers’ Perspective on Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing in Health Clinics in Tanzania A Qualitative Study
... of counseling patients/clients who had an appointment for HIV testing and counseling or for ...during HIV counseling? What do you do to get the client/patient to speak more ...
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Trend Analysis of HIV Testing Services in Zimbabwe, 2007 2016: A Secondary Dataset Analysis
... Post-test counseling is consistently lower than pre- test counseling which suggests loss-to-follow-up in HTS ...offer testing and ...integrated HIV testing and counselling services ...
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Perseverance Pays Off: Health Care Providers' Impact on HIV Testing Decisions by Adolescent Females
... HIV testing. After viewing the film, the girls decided whether or not to obtain testing at the clinic that day. For those who decided to obtain testing, additional pretest counseling and[r] ...
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Evaluation of collaborative TB/HIV activities in a general hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... the HIV testing rate, the treatment charts of 238 randomly selected patients were reviewed for providers’ compliance with evaluation criteria, and exit interviews were conducted with 309 TB/HIV ...
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2609.pdf
... about HIV testing through a pre-test information session that can be given either individually or in a group setting ...pre-test counseling with information sessions allows providers to recommend ...
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Addressing the dual health epidemics of HIV and sexual abuse among children and adolescents in Kenya: uptake of HIV counseling and post-exposure prophylaxis
... Health care providers from the two county-level hospitals were selected using purposive sampling to ensure inclusion of those whose daily responsibilities included the provision of PRC services in accordance with the ...
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Factors associated with HIV counseling and testing and correlations with sexual behavior of teachers in primary and secondary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... for HIV was 739/1,034 ...for HIV compared with being ...had HIV testing (AOR ...of HIV (AOR ...for HIV were less likely to have used condoms consistently than those who had never ...
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HIV voluntary counseling and testing practices among military personnel and civilian residents in a military cantonment in southeastern Nigeria
... lence figures for Nigeria’s 150,000-strong armed forces are unavailable in the public domain since force-wide HIV testing has not been conducted. Preliminary results from an ongoing study funded by the US ...
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<p>HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Uptake and Associated Factors Among Sexually Active Men in Ethiopia: Analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey Data</p>
... for HIV/AIDS and the current result reaffirms the ...for HIV/AIDS was higher by 91% compared to the ...for HIV/AIDS for males who were listening to the radio at least once a week, compared to ...
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Perspectives on the HIV continuum of care among adult opioid users in New York City: a qualitative study
... new HIV and HCV outbreaks [2, ...the HIV care continuum among HIV-infected drug users, including suboptimal HIV testing, delayed entry into HIV care [4, 5], and initiation of ART ...
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Cd4 count at the time of presentation in newly diagnosed HIV patients in a tertiary care hospital in south India: implications for the programme
... pre-test counseling was provided as per the standard national guidelines for HIV testing under ...NACO. HIV was diagnosed by serological tests (antigen and antibody detection) on appropriate ...
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Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, an experience from Oman
... including HIV testing results of pregnant woman and coverage of HIV testing by institution, coverage of counseling, and at secondary and tertiary hospitals the information collected ...
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