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The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia

BACKGROUND: Client-initiated HIV counselling and testing has been scaled up in many African countries, in the form of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT). Test rates have remained low, with HIV-related stigma being an important barrier to HIV testing. This study explored HIV testing decisions in...

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Autores principales:	Jürgensen, Marte, Tuba, Mary, Fylkesnes, Knut, Blystad, Astrid
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22222028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-2

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