Effect of home based hiv counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: Cluster randomised trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7915, 2013, Pages

  Doherty, Tanya ^a,b   Tabana, Hanani ^a,c   Jackson, Debra ^b   Naik, Reshma ^d   Zembe, Wanga ^a   Lombard, Carl ^a   Swanevelder, Sonja ^a   Fox, Matthew P ^d   Thorson, Anna ^c   Ekström, Anna Mia ^c   Chopra, Mickey ^e  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME BASE HIV COUNSELLING AND TESTING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; STIGMA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84880059763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f3481     Document Type: Article

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