Background Programmes that introduce rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and
tuberculosis drug resistance aim to bring tests closer to the community, and thereby cut …

This paper reviews the legal and policy context of HIV disclosure in sub-Saharan Africa, as
well as what is known about rates, consequences and social context of disclosure, with …

Abstract The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) is one of very few
long-standing, publicly available longitudinal cohort studies in a sub-Saharan African (SSA) …

International organizations promote provider-initiated,'routine'HIV testing of pregnant women
seeking antenatal care as an effort to curb mother-to-child transmission. We offer an account …

Background Successful point-of-care testing, namely ensuring the completion of the test and
treat cycle in the same encounter, has immense potential to reduce diagnostic and treatment …

Using ethnographic material collected between 2003 and 2007 in five HIV clinics in the US,
South Africa, Uganda, and Thailand, this article examines “official ethics” and “ethics on the …

Objective In view of expanding 'test and treat'initiatives, we sought to elicit how the
experience of HIV testing influenced subsequent engagement in HIV care among people …

This paper contextualises counselling within a broader historical formation that links
disclosure to healing and deploys confessional technologies to incite disclosure and …

Background With the launch of the national HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign in
South Africa (SA), lay HIV counsellors, who had been trained in blood withdrawal, have …

Objectives Successful point‐of‐care (POC) testing (completion of test‐and‐treat cycle in one
patient encounter) has immense potential to reduce diagnostic and treatment delays, and …