Cost-effectiveness of free HIV voluntary counseling and testing through a community-based AIDS service organization in Northern Tanzania

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 114-119

  Thielman, Nathan M ^a   Chu, Helen Y ^a   Ostermann, Jan ^b   Itemba, Dafrosa K ^c   Mgonja, Anna ^c   Mtweve, Sabina ^c,e   Bartlett, John A ^a   Shao, John F ^d   Crump, John A ^a,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kikundi cha Wanawake Kilimanjaro Kupambana UKIMWI: Women against AIDS in Kilimanjaro ^*  (Tanzania)

^d TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^e KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

EID: 29944438634     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.056796     Document Type: Article

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