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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...
Autores principales: | Velen, Kavindhran, Lewis, James J., Charalambous, Salome, Page-Shipp, Liesl, Popane, Flora, Churchyard, Gavin J., Hoffmann, Christopher J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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