Knowledge of HIV status prior to a community HIV counseling and testing intervention in a rural district of south Africa: Results of a community based survey

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tabana, Hanani ^a,c   Doherty, Tanya ^a,b   Swanevelder, Sonja ^a   Lombard, Carl ^a   Jackson, Debra ^b   Zembe, Wanga ^a   Naik, Reshma ^a,d  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; SCALE UP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858960162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-73     Document Type: Article

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