Linkage to HIV Care and Survival Following Inpatient HIV Counseling and Testing

Linkage to HIV Outpatient Care Following an Inpatient Stay

Attitude of Health Care Professionals Towards Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV/AIDS

Introduction: HIV counseling and testing is the vital and preliminary interventional step aimed at reducing the spread of HIV infection. The study was designed to determine the attitude of health care professionals towards voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional prospective study a sel...

HIV Counseling and Testing

This study investigated heterosexual HIV risk behaviors, changes in stage of change for safer sex and factors associated with such changes, among a diverse sample of 560 heterosexually active individuals presenting at publicly funded HIV C&T sites. Questionnaires were administrated before HIV C&T, and three months afterwards. Positive serostatus was the most significant predictor of safer behav...

Uptake of HIV testing and counseling, risk perception and linkage to HIV care among Thai university students

BACKGROUND HIV testing and counseling (HTC) with linkage to care after known infection are key components for HIV transmission prevention. This study was conducted to assess HTC uptake, HIV risk perception and linkage to care among Thai university students. METHODS An outreach HTC program was conducted in a large public university in Thailand from January 2013 to December 2014. The program co...

Linkage to care following a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa

INTRODUCTION Efforts to increase awareness of HIV status have led to growing interest in community-based models of HIV testing. Maximizing the benefits of such programmes requires timely linkage to care and treatment. Thus, an understanding of linkage and its potential barriers is imperative for scale-up. METHODS This study was conducted in rural South Africa. HIV-positive clients (n=492) ide...