Cost effectiveness of facility and home based HIV voluntary counseling and testing strategies in rural Uganda
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Cost effectiveness of facility and home based HIV voluntary counseling and testing strategies in rural Uganda.
BACKGROUND In Uganda, the main stay for provision of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) has been at health facilities. Home based VCT on the other hand, was initiated in the country to improve service coverage. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectiveness of facility- and home-based HIV VCT strategies in rural southwestern Uganda. METHODS Data on costs...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Health Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1680-6905
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v13i2.32