'Testing Together Challenges the Relationship': Consequences of HIV Testing as a Couple in a High HIV Prevalence Setting in Rural South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tabana, Hanani ^a,b,c   Doherty, Tanya ^a,d   Rubenson, Birgitta ^b,c   Jackson, Debra ^d   Ekström, Anna Mia ^b,c   Thorson, Anna ^b,c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; EXTRAMARITAL SEX; FEMALE; GENDER; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOUTH AFRICA; TRUST; ADOLESCENT; COUNSELING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879133288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066390     Document Type: Article

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