Low Impact of a Community-Wide HIV Testing and Counseling Program on Sexual Behavior in Rural Uganda
| Autor: | Joseph Konde-Lule, Geoffrey Kabagambe, Walter Kipp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Counseling Male Rural Population Gerontology Health (social science) Adolescent Referral Sexual Behavior Population Developing country HIV Infections Condoms Interviews as Topic Risk-Taking Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Pregnancy HIV Seropositivity medicine Humans Uganda Pregnancy Complications Infectious education education.field_of_study Chi-Square Distribution Transmission (medicine) business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health virus diseases medicine.disease Test (assessment) Sexual Partners Infectious Diseases Female Health education business Developed country |
| Zdroj: | AIDS Education and Prevention. 13:279-289 |
| ISSN: | 0899-9546 |
| Popis: | One of the major benefits of HIV testing is thought to be the opportunity for individual counseling to promote the behavioral changes necessary to reduce HIV transmission, and to facilitate the referral of the HIV infected individual to health facilities for medical evaluation The counseling process provides information before and after the HIV test is done (pre- and posttest counseling). This information relates to a variety of topics, such as the cause of AIDS, modes of transmission and how the risk of transmission can be reduced. The objective of this counseling is to induce in these individuals a reduction of high risk sexual behavior which will prevent HIV infections in themselves and in others. Research in the developed world and in developing countries has not clearly proven the effectiveness of HIV counseling and testing in reducing risk behavior (Norton, Miller, & Johnson, 1997). Information about voluntary HIV counseling and testing programs comes mainly from developed countries. In some studies of specialized groups (e.g., homo |
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