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| Title: | HIV counselling and testing on the move |
| Authors: | Matovu, Joseph K.B. |
| Keywords: | HIV/AIDS
HIV Counselling
HIV Testing |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Citation: | Matovu, J.K.B. (2011). HIV counselling and testing on the move. The Lancet |
| Abstract: | In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Michael Sweat
and colleagues1 report the results of a randomised
community-based trial of voluntary counselling
and testing (VCT), Project Accept. The trial was
designed to assess the eff ect of mobile communitybased
VCT (CBVCT) on uptake of HIV testing and
HIV case detection in people aged 16–32 years in
Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Thailand. The investigators
randomly assigned communities to receive CBVCT,
which included intensive community mobilisation,
provision of support services after testing, and access
to standard clinic-based VCT (SVCT), or to receive
SVCT alone. CBVCT was associated with higher uptake
of HIV testing than was SVCT in Tanzania (37% vs 9%),
Zimbabwe (51% vs 5%), and Thailand (69% vs 23%).
Furthermore, almost four times more clients infected
with HIV were detected in CBVCT communities than
in SVCT communities. These results suggest that
use of CBVCT programmes, combined with eff ective
community mobilisation and support services after
testing, can increase uptake of both VCT and HIV case
detection compared with SVCT. |
| URI: | DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70072-X
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1879 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (Health-Sciences)
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