Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing found highly acceptable and to reduce inequalities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mutale, Wilbroad ^a,b   Michelo, Charles ^a,b   Jürgensen, Marte ^b   Fylkesnes, Knut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; ZAMBIA;

ADULT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77953564040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-347     Document Type: Article

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