High acceptance of home-based HIV counseling and testing in an urban community setting in Uganda

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sekandi, Juliet N ^a,b   Sempeera, Hassard ^b   List, Justin ^c   Mugerwa, Micheal ^d   Asiimwe, Stephen ^a   Yin, Xiaoping ^a   Whalen, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80053363706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-730     Document Type: Article

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