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

Master Thesis

2009

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Authors
Nakao, Jolene H
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Mathews, Catherine
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
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Faculty of Health Sciences
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Abstract
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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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-94).

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Public Health

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Nakao, J. 2009. Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya. University of Cape Town.

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