Using mass media campaigns to promote voluntary counseling and HIV-testing services in Kenya

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2019-2024

  Marum, Elizabeth ^a   Morgan, Gwendolyn ^b   Hightower, Allen ^c   Ngare, Carol ^d   Taegtmeyer, Miriam ^e,f  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d National AIDS and STD Control Programme

^e Liverpool VCT   (Kenya)

^f LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HIV; Mass media; Public health; Scale up; Voluntary counseling and HIV testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MASS MEDIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

EID: 53549108315     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283104066     Document Type: Article

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