Feasibility and effectiveness of provider initiated HIV testing and counseling of TB suspects in vizianagaram district, South India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Achanta, Shanta ^a   Kumar, Ajay M V ^a,b   Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina ^a,b   Jaju, Jyoti ^a   Shamrao, Srinivas Rao Motta ^c   Uppaluri, Ramakrishna ^d   Tekumalla, Rama Rao ^e   Gupta, Devesh ^b   Kumar, Ashok ^b   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^f   Dewan, Puneet K ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^c State TB Cell   (India)

^d Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Prevention and Control Society   (India)

^e Directorate of Health Services   (India)

^f International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease The Union   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HIV TEST; HIV TESTING AND COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COUNSELING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864262929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041378     Document Type: Article

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