Using lay counsellors to promote community-based voluntary counselling and HIV testing in rural northern Ghana: A baseline survey on community acceptance and stigma

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 721-733

  Baiden, F ^a   Akanlu, G ^a   Hodgson, A ^a   Akweongo, P ^a   Debpuur, C ^a   Binka, F ^b  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KNOWLEDGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RURAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GHANA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 34547444065     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932006001829     Document Type: Article

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