Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-94). === Home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBCT) is a wayt to provide confidential HIV testing in a person's home. As home-based testing has not yet been evaluated on a wide scale in Kenya among adult individuals [over...

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Main Author:	Nakao, Jolene H
Other Authors:	Mathews, Catherine
Format:	Dissertation
Language:	English
Published:	University of Cape Town 2015
Subjects:	Public Health
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12137

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spelling	ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-121372021-07-07T05:09:09Z Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya Nakao, Jolene H Mathews, Catherine Public Health Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-94). Home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBCT) is a wayt to provide confidential HIV testing in a person's home. As home-based testing has not yet been evaluated on a wide scale in Kenya among adult individuals [over age 15], this project is designed to assess in rural Kenya 1) overall acceptance rates and variables that predict differential acceptance rates of home-based HIV testing, 2) reasons for refusal of home-based testing, and 3) barriers to seeking treatment for people who are HIV positive. 2015-01-13T04:03:27Z 2015-01-13T04:03:27Z 2009 Master Thesis Masters MPH http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12137 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
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description	Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-94). === Home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBCT) is a wayt to provide confidential HIV testing in a person's home. As home-based testing has not yet been evaluated on a wide scale in Kenya among adult individuals [over age 15], this project is designed to assess in rural Kenya 1) overall acceptance rates and variables that predict differential acceptance rates of home-based HIV testing, 2) reasons for refusal of home-based testing, and 3) barriers to seeking treatment for people who are HIV positive.
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title	Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya
title_short	Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya
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title_full_unstemmed	Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya
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Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya

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