Client-initiated, provider-initiated, or self-testing for HIV: What do South Africans prefer?

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages e45-e56

  Van Dyk, Alta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Client initiated counseling and testing (CICT); HIV; Mandatory counseling; Provider initiated counseling and testing (PICT); Self testing; Telephone counseling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLIENT-INITIATED COUNSELING AND TESTING (CICT); COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MANDATORY COUNSELING; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROVIDER-INITIATED COUNSELING AND TESTING (PICT); QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF-TESTING; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; TELEPHONE COUNSELING; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

CLIENT-INITIATED COUNSELING AND TESTING (CICT); HIV; MANDATORY COUNSELING; PROVIDER-INITIATED COUNSELING AND TESTING (PICT); SELF-TESTING; TELEPHONE COUNSELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COUNSELING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885433944     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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