What Are the Reasons for Poor Uptake of HIV Testing among Patients with TB in an Eastern India District?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bishnu, Bipra ^a   Bhaduri, Sudipto ^b   Kumar, Ajay M V ^c   Click, Eleanor S ^d   Chadha, Vineet Kumar ^e   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^c   Nair, Sreenivas Achutan ^a   Gupta, Devesh ^b   Ahmed, Quazi T ^a   Sarkar, Silajit ^a   Paul, Durba ^a   Dewan, Puneet ^a  

^a WHO Country Office   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

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

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84874566907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055229     Document Type: Article

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