The impact of home-based HIV counseling and testing on care-seeking and incidence of common infectious disease syndromes in rural western Kenya

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bigogo, Godfrey ^a,b   Amolloh, Manase ^a   Laserson, Kayla F ^a,b   Audi, Allan ^a,b   Aura, Barrack ^a,b   Dalal, Warren ^b   Ackers, Marta ^b   Burton, Deron ^a,b   Breiman, Robert F ^b   Feikin, Daniel R ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

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

Author keywords

Healthcare seeking; Home based HIV counseling and testing; Infectious disease incidence

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ACUTE FEBRILE ILLNESS; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME BASED COUNSELING AND TESTING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COUNSELING; HIV INFECTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84903800681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-376     Document Type: Article

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