Impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on VCT in a rural hospital in Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 567-573

  Mossdorf, Erik ^a,b,c,d   Stoeckle, Marcel ^c,d   Vincenz, Anja ^c   Mwaigomole, Emmanuel Geofrey ^a,b   Chiweka, Evarist ^a,b   Kibatala, Patience ^a   Urassa, Honoraty ^b   Abdulla, Salim ^b   Elzi, Luigia ^d   Tanner, Marcel ^c   Furrer, Hansjakob ^e   Hatz, Christoph ^c   Battegay, Manuel ^d  

^a St Francis Designated District Hospital   (Tanzania)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HIV; Rural; Tanzania; Voluntary counselling and testing

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RURAL POPULATION; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS; YOUNG ADULT;

TANZANIA;

EID: 77950673726     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02490.x     Document Type: Article

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