HIV prevalence and antenatal care attendance among pregnant women in a large home-based HIV counseling and testing program in Western Kenya

S Ndege, S Washington, A Kaaria… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Objective To describe the uptake of and factors associated with HIV prevalence among
pregnant women in a large-scale home-based HIV counseling and testing (HBCT) program …

Systematic review of strategies to increase men's HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa

B Hensen, S Taoka, JJ Lewis, HA Weiss, J Hargreaves - Aids, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: This systematic review summarizes evidence on the effectiveness of strategies to
increase men's HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: Medline, EmBase, Africa-Wide …

Determinants of HIV counselling and testing participation in a prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission programme in rural Burkina Faso

M Sarker, A Sanou, R Snow, J Ganame… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To analyse the factors associated with the uptake of HIV counselling, HIV testing
and returning for test results in a rural hospital setting in Nouna, Burkina Faso. Methods …

Where are the men? Targeting male partners in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

K Koo, JD Makin, BWC Forsyth - AIDS care, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Involvement of male partners may increase adherence to and improve outcomes of
programs to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT). Greater understanding of …

Missed opportunities: barriers to HIV testing during pregnancy from a population based cohort study in rural Uganda

EC Larsson, AE Thorson, G Pariyo, P Waiswa… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The aim was to assess population-level HIV-testing uptake among pregnant women, key for
access to prevention-of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services, and to identify risk …

Factors influencing acceptability of voluntary counselling and HIV-testing among pregnant women in Northern Tanzania

MM De Paoli, R Manongi, KI Klepp - AIDS care, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Guided by the conceptual framework of the Health Belief Model, this study aimed to identify
factors associated with pregnant women's expressed willingness to accept voluntary …

Attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing for HIV among pregnant women in rural south-west Uganda

R Pool, S Nyanzi, JAG Whitworth - AIDS care, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the results of a study exploring the attitudes of women attending
maternity clinics to voluntary counselling and testing during pregnancy in rural areas in …

Investigating factors associated with uptake of HIV voluntary counselling and testing among pregnant women living in North Uganda

M Fabiani, A Cawthorne, B Nattabi, EO Ayella… - AIDS care, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated factors potentially associated with the uptake of HIV voluntary counselling
and testing (VCT), which is the first step in acceding to programmes for the prevention of …

Knowledge and perceptions of couples' voluntary counseling and testing in urban Rwanda and Zambia: a cross-sectional household survey

AL Kelley, E Karita, PS Sullivan, F Katangulia… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Most incident HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa occur between cohabiting,
discordant, heterosexual couples. Though couples' voluntary HIV counseling and testing …

Voluntary counseling and testing for HIV among pregnant women presenting in labor in Kigali, Rwanda

J Kowalczyk, P Jolly, E Karita, JA Nibarere… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
This study investigated factors related to acceptability of voluntary counseling and testing
(VCT) for HIV among pregnant women presenting in labor in Kigali, Rwanda, in an era of …