OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of offering HIV counseling and testing in community health centers (CHCs) and to provide evidence for the HIV/AIDS response in China. METHODS Forty-two CHCs were selected from the eight cities that participated in the study. Rapid testing was mainly provided to: clients seeking HIV testing and counseling (HTC); outpatients with high-risk behavior of contra...

this paper studies the experience of social exclusion in women with hiv. the method research is qualitative research and the technique used to collect data is interview. also, the population is women with hiv in clinique of behavioral sickness counseling in tehran. the sample size is 30 people. research findings indicate that these women have experienced exclusion. also, the results show that s...

Materials and methods The M-BRiHT project is a single-site, prospective randomized study of adult Emergency Department attendees offered automated video-based pre-and post-test counseling combined with rapid HIV testing (buccal swab). Subjects were randomly assigned to receive identical, standardized video-based preand post-test counseling from a single pre-assigned counselor (Caucasian female)...

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These recommendations were developed by the U.S. Public Health Service to address the increasing epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among women and their infants. The recommendations stress the importance of early diagnosis of HIV infection for the health of both women and their infants and are based on advances made in HIV-related treatment and prevention. The most signif...

BACKGROUND Coverage assessment of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) service is useful to measures the health system effort or performance of health service delivery function and to influence decisions. The objective of this study was to assess effective coverage level for Voluntary Counseling and testing services in major health facilities of Jimma Zone. METHODS Health institution based ...

Around the world, HIV-prevalence rates among prisoners are high compared to the general population. This is due to overrepresentation of injecting drug users (IDUs) in prison and possible HIV-transmission inside prison. Limited health services in penitentiary institutes, stigma, policy issues, and budgetary constraints may hamper delivery of appropriate services for HIV in prison. Prisons may, ...

OBJECTIVE Enrollment in HIV-prevention interventions is more likely when the audience has safer rather than riskier HIV-relevant behavior. Thus, a meta-intervention was designed to increase participation by an audience of infrequent condom users in Florida. DESIGN Participants (N = 400) were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 conditions varying the introduction to a counseling program. In the experi...

1 From the President ................................. 2 Action = Life ........................................... 3 Peer Counseling Perspectives ................ 4 Reaching Out! ......................................... 5 The Backbone ......................................... 6 Prevention Counseling ........................... 7 Donations & Development ..................... 8 Treatment News (N...

The Family Planning Program provides affordable, confidential family planning and related preventive health services in accordance with nationally recognized standards where evidence exists that these services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with a priority for services to low-income individuals. The program expands access to a broad range of acceptable and effe...