Household HIV Testing Uptake among Contacts of TB Patients in South Africa.

Household HIV Testing Uptake among Contacts of TB Patients in South Africa.

BACKGROUND:In high HIV prevalence settings, offering HIV testing may be a reasonable part of contact tracing of index tuberculosis (TB) patients. We evaluated the uptake of HIV counselling and testing (HCT) among household contacts of index TB patients and the proportion of newly diagnosed HIV-infec...

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Main Authors: Kavindhran Velen, James J Lewis, Salome Charalambous, Liesl Page-Shipp, Flora Popane, Gavin J Churchyard, Christopher J Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4873208?pdf=render

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