Voluntary counselling and testing
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- Provision of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for people living with HIV
- ( The International HIV/AIDS Alliance / International HIV/AIDS Alliance , 2007)
- This document from the International AIDS Alliance is intended as a resource to help NGOs and HIV service providers working across the spectrum of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services ...
- How should health workers recommend HIV testing to their patients?
- ( World Health Organization , 2007)
- These guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS outline an opt-out approach to provider-initiated HIV testing. Following this approach, healthcare staff would routinely recommend ...
- Ensuring respect for human rights when scaling up HIV testing
- ( R Jürgens / Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network , 2007)
- This discussion paper from the Public Health Programme of the Open Society Institute (OSI) examines the issues associated with scaling up access to HIV testing. It finds that developing provider-initi...
- Would opt-out HIV testing be acceptable to pregnant women?
- ( Freddy Perez;Charity Zvandaziva;Barbara Engelsmann;Francois Dabis / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , 2006)
- This article from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) argues that routine HIV testing on an opt-out basis would be widely acceptable among pregnant women. Introducing this appr...
- Research and resources on good practice in youth-friendly sexual health services
- ( E. Scholl;W. Finger / YouthNet, Family Health International , 2007)
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Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs...
- Problems with the use of data collected at African HIV counselling and testing clinics
- ( G. Mwaluko; A Wrings; J. Todd / The Lancet , 2007)
- This article from the Lancet warns against the inappropriate use of data collected at voluntary HIV counselling and testing clinics in Africa. The article points out that the data collected at these c...
- Barriers to and successes of integration in Uganda
- ( D. Asiimwe; R. Kibombo; J. Matsiko / Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This paper examines the integration of family planning (FP) services with HIV and AIDS services (voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) and anti-re...
- Opt-out HIV testing requires human-rights monitoring and ethical scrutiny
- ( S. Rennie; F. Behets / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2006)
- This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), considers the ethical challenges of massive scale-up of HIV testing required in order to achieve ART (antiretroviral therapy) ta...
- Widespread discrimination of HIV positive people is detrimental to public health
- ( Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS , 2004)
- This report by the Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) documents a peer-led study on AIDS-related stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Asia. ...
- User fees not enough to cover comprehensive services for people living with HIV and AIDS
- ( C. Costello Daly / Horizons , 2004)
- This report, from the Horizons Project, provides findings from an assessment of the YRG CARE (Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education) model in Southern India. The YRG CARE model offers ...
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