Incorporating Rapid HIV Testing into Partner Counseling and Referral Services
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Recommendations to increase testing and identification of HIV-positive individuals through partner counseling and referral services.
6 artner counseling and referral services (PCRS) are one aspect of care available to HIV-positive people and the partners with whom they have sex and/or hare hypodermic needles. The goal of referral (providng the names of these partners) is to notify partners of heir potential exposure to HIV. Notified partners are rged to be tested for HIV: If they test negative they can eceive prevention coun...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0033-3549,1468-2877
DOI: 10.1177/00333549081230s315