Author's response to reviews Title: Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing found highly acceptable and to reduce inequalities Authors:

Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing found highly acceptable and to reduce inequalities

BACKGROUND Low uptake of voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) in sub-Saharan Africa is raising acceptability concerns which might be associated with ways by which it is offered. We investigated the acceptability of home-based delivery of counselling and HIV testing in urban and rural populations in Zambia where VCT has been offered mostly from local clinics. METHODS A population-based ...

Author's response to reviews Title: Five-year monitoring of a gay-friendly voluntary counselling and testing facility in Switzerland: who got tested and why? Authors:

Author's response to reviews Title: The impact of Provider-Initiated (Opt-out) HIV Testing and Counselling of patients with sexually transmitted infection in Cape Town, South Africa. A controlled trial Authors:

Home-based model for HIV voluntary counselling and testing.

Sir—Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus and Mark Etzel (Feb 15, p 611) suggest a model of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) that includes only posttest counselling and provision of results to people with HIV, because many people never receive their test results in the USA. We did a population-based study in rural Uganda to assess whether receipt of HIV test results would be improved if VCT was provi...

Governance of HIV/AIDS: Implications for Health Sector Response

This paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to HIV/AIDS. This comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and HIV prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), for Prevention of Mother–to-Ch...