Design and evaluation of a drama-based intervention to promote voluntary counseling and HIV testing in a South African community

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 524-526

  Middelkoop, Keren ^a   Myer, Landon ^a,b   Smit, Joalida ^a   Wood, Robin ^a   Bekker, Linda Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS EXAMINATION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COUNSELING; DRAMA; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33746434876     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000219295.50291.1d     Document Type: Article

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