Workplace counselling

Uptake of Workplace HIV Counselling and Testing: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND HIV counselling and testing is a key component of both HIV care and HIV prevention, but uptake is currently low. We investigated the impact of rapid HIV testing at the workplace on uptake of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT). METHODS AND FINDINGS The study was a cluster-randomised trial of two VCT strategies, with business occupational health clinics as the unit of randomisat...

Marriage Counselling

HIV incidence during a cluster-randomized trial of two strategies providing voluntary counselling and testing at the workplace, Zimbabwe.

OBJECTIVE To investigate HIV incidence during a trial of two voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) strategies. Counselling may promote beneficial behavioural change, although knowledge of negative status does not appear to contribute further benefit. DESIGN The parent cluster-randomized trial demonstrated much greater uptake of VCT when counselling and rapid testing were available on-site (...

A lottery incentive system to facilitate dialogue and social support for workplace HIV counselling and testing: A qualitative inquiry

Despite South African mid-sized companies' efforts to offer HIV counselling and testing (HCT) in the workplace, companies report relatively poor uptake rates. An urgent need for a range of different interventions aimed at increasing participation in workplace HCT has been identified. The aim of this study was to explore qualitatively the influence of a lottery incentive system (LIS) as an inter...

Tourist Office Counselling Service

In an ongoing R D project, the authors investigate the consultation situations of travel counselling in travel agencies and tourist offices at destinations. The first investigations described in this paper indicate more similarities than differences between these two situations. The design requirements for collaborative co-located travel counselling from previous work describe a reformulation o...