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Private healthcare sector doctors and HIV testing practices in the eThekwini Metro of KwaZulu-Natal

South African Family Practice, 2011
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing has many logistic and ethical challenges. The UNAIDS/WHO policy statement states that the testing of individuals must be confidential, be accompanied by counselling, and be conducted with informed ...
P. Naidoo
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Barriers to accessibility and utilization of HIV testing and counseling services in Tanzania: experience from Angaza Zaidi programme

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: while HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services remain to be amongst the effective strategies in slowing HIV transmission, its accessibility and uptake in Tanzania is low.
Alfred Meremo, Beati Mboya, David Ngilangwa, Robert Dulle, Edith Tarimo, David Urassa, Emillian Michael, Nyasiro Gibore, Bonaventura Mpondo, Gabriel Mchonde, Alex Ernest, Rita Noronha, Festus Ilako   +12 more
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THE ROLE AND OBJECTIVES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES DUE TO GENDER- AND AGERELATED FEATURES OF HIV INFECTION IN TAJIKISTAN

Паёми Сино, 2019
Objective: Proposing an effective measures of counteraction to HIV infection due to its gender-age characteristics in Tajikistan Methods: A comparative analysis of official quantitative statistics on HIV infection by the Ministry of Health and Social ...
D.A. KADYROVA, S.S. KARIMOV, N.A. ABDUKHAMEDOV   +2 more
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HIV self-testing as part of a differentiated HIV testing approach: exploring urban and rural adult experiences from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using a cross-over study design

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Suboptimal HIV testing rates through available testing approaches such as HIV counselling and testing have directed research efforts toward recognizing the potential of HIV self-testing as an additional testing method.
Charlene Harichund, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Pinky Kunene, Sinenhlanhla Simelane, Mosa Moshabela   +4 more
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Digitally supported HIV self-testing increases facility-based HIV testing capacity in Ekurhuleni, South Africa

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2022
Background: HIV testing is the first step for linkage to HIV prevention or treatment services. Facility-based HIV testing is the most utilised method, but faces challenges such as limited work space and human resources.
Nolundi T. Mshweshwe-Pakela, Tonderai Mabuto, Luke Shankland, Alex Fischer, Dikeledi Tsukudu, Christopher J. Hoffmann   +5 more
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Geographical variation in HIV testing in South Africa: Evidence from the 2017 national household HIV survey

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2021
Background: Identification of the geographical areas with low uptake of HIV testing could assist in spatial targeting of interventions to improve the uptake of HIV testing.
Sean Jooste, Musawenkosi Mabaso, Myra Taylor, Alicia North, Yolande Shean, Leickness C. Simbayi, Tarylee Reddy, Leonard Mwandingi, Tenielle Schmidt, Portia Nevhungoni, Samuel Manda, Khangelani Zuma   +11 more
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Counselling for an HIV test [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1996
Abstract Doctors may feel uncomfortable with the prospect of discussing a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody test with their patient. This is in part because they do not enquire about high risk activity as part of a medical history.
S, Moss, O E, Williams, C R, Hind
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Early infant diagnosis of HIV infection at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Monrovia, Liberia

HIV Research & Clinical Practice, 2022
Background: Vertical transmission accounts for majority of new HIV infections among children worldwide. Ninety percent of HIV-positive children reside in Sub- Saharan Africa with their infection predominantly acquired via vertical transmission.
Umar I. U, M. A. Adeiza, R. C. Ideh, O. Ogbuagu   +3 more
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Underlying reasons why some people haven’t tested for HIV – a discourse analysis of qualitative data from Cape Town, South Africa

SAHARA-J, 2021
Reported barriers to HIV testing over the last 15 years have remained consistent, despite improved service offerings. We aimed to probe deeper by exploring how people who have never tested construct HIV testing in their talk.
Kyla Meyerson, Graeme Hoddinott, Tamryn Nicholson, Sue-Ann Meehan   +3 more
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HIV self-testing in Singapore is safe, feasible and acceptable: Results from a pilot implementation project

Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
The Joint United Nations Programme on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (UNAIDS) has set an ambitious goal to end AIDS by 2030 by achieving the 95-95-95 testing and treatment targets by 2025, where 95% of all ...
Chen Seong Wong, Koon Wee Benson Yeo, Sally Low, Fikri Alkhatib, Felicia Huimei Hong, Chiaw Yee Choy, Sophia Archuleta   +6 more
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