Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling: increased uptake in two public community health centers in South Africa and implications for scale-up.

Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling: increased uptake in two public community health centers in South Africa and implications for scale-up.

BACKGROUND: International guidance recommends the scale up of routinely recommended, offered, and delivered health care provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) to increase the proportion of persons who know their HIV status. We compared HIV test uptake under PITC to provider-referral to...

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Main Authors: Shona Dalal, Chung-won Lee, Thato Farirai, Allison Schilsky, Thurma Goldman, Janet Moore, Naomi N Bock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3219659?pdf=render

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