A longitudinal analysis of the completeness of maternal HIV testing, including repeat testing in Cape Town, South Africa
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HIV testing attitudes, AIDS stigma, and voluntary HIV counselling and testing in a black township in Cape Town, South Africa.
OBJECTIVES A cornerstone of HIV prevention in South Africa is voluntary HIV antibody counselling and testing (VCT), but only one in five South Africans aware of VCT have been tested. This study examined the relation between HIV testing history, attitudes towards testing, and AIDS stigmas. METHODS Men (n = 224) and women (n = 276) living in a black township in Cape Town completed venue interce...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1758-2652,1758-2652
DOI: 10.1002/jia2.25441