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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 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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/12137
Date January 2009
CreatorsNakao, Jolene H
ContributorsMathews, Catherine
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MPH
Formatapplication/pdf

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