Effect of community-based voluntary counselling and testing on HIV incidence and social and behavioural outcomes (NIMH Project Accept; HPTN 043): a cluster-randomised trial

Background: Although several interventions have shown reduced HIV incidence in clinical trials, the community-level effect of effective interventions on the epidemic when scaled up is unknown. We investigated whether a multicomponent, multilevel social and behavioural prevention strategy could redu...

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Main Authors: Prof. Thomas J Coates, PhD, Michal Kulich, PhD, Prof. David D Celentano, ScD, Carla E Zelaya, PhD, Prof. Suwat Chariyalertsak, MD, Alfred Chingono, MSc, Glenda Gray, MBBCH, Jessie K K Mbwambo, MD, Prof. Stephen F Morin, PhD, Prof. Linda Richter, PhD, Michael Sweat, PhD, Heidi van Rooyen, PhD, Nuala McGrath, ScD, Agnès Fiamma, MIPH, Oliver Laeyendecker, PhD, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, BS, Greg Szekeres, BA, Deborah Donnell, PhD, Prof. Susan H Eshleman, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-05-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X14700324