Dramatic and sustained increase in HIV-testing rates among antenatal attendees in Eastern Uganda after a policy change from voluntary counselling and testing to routine counselling and testing for HIV: A retrospective analysis of Hospital records, 2002-2009

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Byamugisha, Robert ^a,b   Tylleskär, Thorkild ^b   Kagawa, Mike N ^c   Onyango, Saul ^d   Karamagi, Charles As ^b,c   Tumwine, James K ^c  

^a Mbale Regional Referral Hospital   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d Uganda AIDS Commission   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICS; UGANDA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957788272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-290     Document Type: Article

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