Provider initiated
Factors affecting acceptance of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling services among outpatient clients in selected health facilities in Harar Town, Eastern Ethiopia
... Purpose: To improve the slow uptake of HIV counseling and testing, the World Health Orga- nization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have developed draft guidelines on ...
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Predictors of refusal of provider initiated HIV testing among clients visiting adult outpatient departments in Jimma town, Oromia Region, Ethiopia: unmatched case control study
... for provider-initiated HIV ...The provider- initiated testing is a good opportunity to not miss clients on their visit to a health ...the provider, and unhealthy actions that may follow ...
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Practicing provider initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities
... Our findings on HIV testing exposure have furthermore indicated unforeseen inequity challenges emerging from the fact that with scaling up of the provider initiated opt- out testing in PMTCT programs; women ...
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Ethical issues surrounding the provider initiated opt – Out prenatal HIV screening practice in Sub – Saharan Africa: a literature review
... principle of respect for autonomy remains the main ethical principle that can easily be breached with the current provider initiated opt – out screening approach [18, 23, 24]. The theory of libertarian ...
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Suboptimal patterns of provider initiated HIV testing and counselling, antiretroviral therapy eligibility assessment and referral in primary health clinic attendees in Blantyre, Malawi
... Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling [which is recommended by WHO for countries with generalized HIV epidemics (World Health Organization 2007a)] differs from client-initiated VCT, in that ...
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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
... routine, provider-initiated HIV testing (as op- posed to self-initiated testing), had better linkage to care – and it was not clear to what extend the testing strategies in the two studies are ...
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Active case finding: comparison of the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of targeted versus blanket provider-initiated-testing and counseling of HIV among children and adolescents in Cameroon
... Blanket provider- initiated testing and counseling; CD4: Cluster of differentiation 4; CI: Confidence Interval; DBS: Dot blot spot; DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid; EID: Early Infant Diagnosis; HIV/AIDS: Human ...
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Provider Initiated Counselling and Testing Approach: 90 90 90 Goal Achievement Kenya Referral General Hospital Assessment
... How to cite this paper: Anderson, I.T., Mwanabute, B., Djaile, M.K., Anselme, K.M., Serges, K.T., Ambroise, U.M., Charles, M.M., Bienfait, M.M., Simon, I.K. and Benjamin, K.I. (2019) Provider-Initiated ...
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Provider-initiated HIV testing in rural Haiti: low rate of missed opportunities for diagnosis of HIV in a primary care clinic
... In provider-initiated testing, the care provider recom- mends and offers an HIV test to those individuals who are considered to be at risk of ...care, provider-initiated testing offers ...
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Providers’ and patients’ perceptions on task shifting as a model for improving uptake of Provider Initiated HIV - Testing and Counselling services in Kenya
... The community health volunteers are attached to the health facilities for supervision under Professional health care providers mainly nurses and clinical officers. The community health volunteers are involved in ...
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Provider initiated tuberculosis case finding in outpatient departments of health care facilities in Ghana: yield by screening strategy and target group
... Tuberculosis Health Sector Strategic Plan for Ghana (2009-2013) clearly identified TB case detection as one of the areas for intervention [13]. With support from WHO and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), ...
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Couple experiences of provider initiated couple HIV testing in an antenatal clinic in Lusaka, Zambia: lessons for policy and practice
... ’ provider-initiated HIV testing on vol- untary informed consent [35-39] because of the inherent skewed power relationships between health staff and ser- vice ...of provider-initiated HIV ...
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Opportunities for strengthening provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV in Namibia
... Provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV (PITC) shifts the onus for initiating HIV testing from the client to the health-care provider, thereby increasing the rates of detection of HIV ...
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Opt-out provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in primary care outpatient clinics in Zambia
... Counselling and testing at each clinic were provided by two lay counsellors who were trained in psychosocial and provider-initiated counselling techniques. They worked in 5-hour shifts. Counselling was ...
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How providers influence the implementation of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling in Botswana: a qualitative study
... delivering provider-initiated testing and counseling for HIV (PITC) for three reasons: (1) they felt they were overworked and had no time, (2) they felt it was not their job, and (3) they were afraid to ...
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Assessment of provider initiated HIV screening in Nigeria with sub Saharan African comparison
... The PITC strategy employed in this assessment was a modified version of the ‘ ACTS’ approach, which includes four brief steps: assess, obtain consent, test, and provide supportive services [20]. In this study, a doctor ...
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Implementing a provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) intervention in Cape town, South Africa: a process evaluation using the normalisation process model
... conventional provider-patient communication used in the STI ...more provider-centred communication style in which they took the authoritative role of providing knowledge and ...
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An assessment of the Zimbabwe ministry of health and child welfare provider initiated HIV testing and counselling programme
... The Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Welfare MoHCW introduced PITC in 2007 stating that anyone presenting to any level of health care institution should be offered HIV testing regar[r] ...
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Strengthening provider initiated testing and counselling in Zimbabwe by deploying supplemental providers: a time series analysis
... To address concerns that PITC provider locations were misclassified, we repeated the analysis taking an alterna- tive approach. Rather than using facility-level data, we instead aggregated the total HIV tests and ...
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<p>Perceived Barriers Toward Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling (PITC) in Pediatric Clinics: A Qualitative Study Involving Two Regional Hospitals in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania</p>
... HIV/AIDS stigma also emerged as a barrier toward PITC provision in this study. This was shown by the fact that most of the parents were concerned about the privacy of the status of their children. Similar studies ...
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