Provider Fatalism Reduces the Likelihood of HIV-Prevention Counseling in Primary Care Settings

Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) for HIV in resource-limited clinical settings: important questions unanswered

Pan African Medical Journal, 2009 3:4 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/editorial/3/4/ © Joseph Becker et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribut...

HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Resource-Constrained Settings

Provider training for patient-centered alcohol counseling in a primary care setting.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a brief training program on primary care providers' skills, attitudes, and knowledge regarding high-risk and problem drinking. DESIGN Training plus pretesting and posttesting for program efficacy. SETTING Ambulatory primary care clinic; academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS Fourteen attending physicians, 12 residents, and 5 nurse practitioners were random...

Health behavior counseling in primary care: provider-reported rate and confidence.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to identify variables associated with primary care providers' self-reported rate of health behavior change counseling and confidence in counseling abilities. Of particular interest was the association of provider personal health behavior with reported rate of counseling and confidence in counseling abilities. METHODS Surveys were mailed to pr...

Client-provider interactions in provider-initiated and voluntary HIV counseling and testing services in Uganda

BACKGROUND Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) is based on information-giving while voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) includes individualised client-centered counseling. It is not known if the provider-client experiences, perceptions and client satisfaction with the information provided differs in the two approaches. METHODS In 2008, we conducted structured interviews ...