Uptake of home-based voluntary HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. kalpana.sabapathy@lshtm.ac.ukIssue Date
2012-12-04
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PLoS MedicineAbstract
Improving access to HIV testing is a key priority in scaling up HIV treatment and prevention services. Home-based voluntary counselling and testing (HBT) as an approach to delivering wide-scale HIV testing is explored here.PubMed ID
23226107Language
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1549-1676ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pmed.1001351
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