High acceptability of voluntary counselling and HIV‐testing but unacceptable loss to follow up in a prevention of mother‐to‐child HIV transmission programme in rural Malawi: scaling‐up requires a different way of acting

Manzi, Marcel; Zachariah, Rony; Teck, Roger; Buhendwa, L; Kazima, J.; Bakali, Evangelia; Firmenich, Peter; Humblet, P.A.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01526.x

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High acceptability of voluntary counselling and HIV‐testing but unacceptable loss to follow up in a prevention of mother‐to‐child HIV transmission programme in rural Malawi: scaling‐up requires a different way of acting

Published in Tropical Medicine & International Health • Dec 1, 2005

Authors:

Marcel Manzi

Rony Zachariah

Roger Teck

Abstract

SETTING: Thyolo District Hospital, rural Malawi. OBJECTIVES: In a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, to determine: the acceptability of offering 'opt-out' voluntary counselling and HIV-testing (VCT); the progressive loss to follow up of HIV-positive mothers during the ...

Subject

Medicine

Nevirapine

Voluntary counseling and testing

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