Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross‐sectional survey among antenatal attendees
Background HIV testing rates have exceeded 90% among the pregnant women at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Mbale District, eastern Uganda, since the introduction of routine antenatal counselling and testing for HIV in June 2006. However, no documented information was available about opinions of...
Main Authors: | Robert Byamugisha, James K Tumwine, Grace Ndeezi, Charles AS Karamagi, Thorkild Tylleskär |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2010-01-01
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Series: | Journal of the International AIDS Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-13-52 |
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