Uptake of HIV testing and counselling
Uptake contexts and perceived impacts of HIV testing and counselling among adults in East and Southern Africa: A meta-ethnographic review
... Introduction HIV testing and counselling (HTC) interventions are key to controlling the HIV epidemic in East and Southern Africa where HTC is primarily delivered through voluntary ...
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Reasons contributing to low uptake of HIV testing and counselling services by health workers in Masvingo urban district
... 1.2.2 HIV Testing and Counselling HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) has proved to be one of the most powerful weapons in halting the spread of HIV / ...undergo ...
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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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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 ...higher uptake of HIV testing and counselling ...
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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 task shifting model was aimed at improving uptake of PITC services for general population. This is particularly critical in the Lower Eastern Kenya that is characterized by wide geographical areas, rough ...
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Uptake of Workplace HIV Counselling and Testing: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Zimbabwe
... improve uptake 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 ...
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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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An assessment of voluntary counselling and testing/ HIV testing and counselling services at health facilities in South Africa
... 8.1 Availability of Adequately Trained Personnel The quality of service delivery is expected to be determined by the adequacy of staffing levels as well as all the technical and professional capacities of staff employed ...
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Determining the Dynamics of HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing Uptake among the Rural and Urban Communities of Nakuru District, Kenya
... with HIV/AIDS with 67% of these coming from Sub Sahara ...every HIV patient who was put on drugs six others became infected with the ...Voluntary testing and counselling (VCT) has been ...
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The role of a mass media campaign in uptake of HIV counselling and testing among young people in five Southern Africa countries
... Therefore, HIV programmers and policy makers should encourage a multi-faceted approach including improving access to basic ...of HIV testing is sensitive and often stigmatized, therefore 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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Opportunities for strengthening provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV in Namibia
... the uptake of provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV (PITC) in Namibia and identifies key opportunities for strengthening this vital aspect of the national HIV ...rapid ...
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The effect of conducting workplace Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) on-site on VCT uptake
... prick HIV test, after which a client is informed of the HIV result ...African HIV Clinicians Society protocols to minimize the risk of incorrect results, if the first test is negative, the employee ...
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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 for ART-eligible patients point to an extreme fail- ure of the health ...proving HIV test uptake, indicated that within a busy primary health care setting nurses were struggling to ef- ...
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Social Cognitive Determinants of HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing Uptake among Married Individuals in Dar es SalaamTanzania: Theoryof Planned Behaviour (TPB)
... HCT uptake among married ...contracting HIV had no influence on the use of HCT among the study ...undergo counselling and testing, which may include free HCT services, couple friendly HCT, ...
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Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counselling in Rwanda: Acceptability among Clinic Attendees and Workers, Reasons for Testing and Predictors of Testing
... on HIV Testing Rates At intervention sites a higher proportion of attendees was tested on the day of interview during PITC roll-out compared to phase 1 (33% ...1); testing rates did not decline ...
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Effect of non-monetary incentives on uptake of couples’ counselling and testing among clients attending mobile HIV services in rural Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomised trial
... on uptake of couples testing and HIV case diagnosis in rural ...mobile HIV testing services were randomly assigned (1:1) to incentives for CHTC or ...for testing was done in ...
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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
... count testing or referral for clinic CD4 count ...Follow-up counselling in this trial showed modest effects, increasing the proportions of individuals linking to care and initiating ART by 4% and 23% ...
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Determinants of condom uptake among HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: experiences from a hospital based study in south India
... condom uptake with or without risk reduction counselling, we analysed data from a subset of 6,939 clients who had never used condoms before their first visit, were sexually active, and had information on ...
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Task-shifting HIV counselling and testing services in Zambia: the role of lay counsellors
... CT uptake data from October 2005 to September 2006 and October 2006 to September 2007 before and after the introduction of lay counsellors were reviewed to assess service statistics ...
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