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Household HIV Testing Uptake among Contacts of TB Patients in South Africa

BACKGROUND: In high HIV prevalence settings, offering HIV testing may be a reasonable part of contact tracing of index tuberculosis (TB) patients. We evaluated the uptake of HIV counselling and testing (HCT) among household contacts of index TB patients and the proportion of newly diagnosed HIV-infe...

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Autores principales: Velen, Kavindhran, Lewis, James J., Charalambous, Salome, Page-Shipp, Liesl, Popane, Flora, Churchyard, Gavin J., Hoffmann, Christopher J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27195957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155688