Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in Rwanda: acceptability among clinic attendees and workers, reasons for testing and predictors of testing

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 4; p. e95459
• Main Authors: Kayigamba, Felix R, Bakker, Mirjam I, Lammers, Judith, Mugisha, Veronicah, Bagiruwigize, Emmanuel, Asiimwe, Anita, van der Loeff, Maarten F Schim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.04.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acceptability; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Adult; AIDS; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Counseling; Counseling - statistics & numerical data; Departments; Diagnosis; Female; Health care; Health care facilities; Health facilities; Health Personnel; HIV; HIV infection; HIV Infections - diagnosis; Hospitals; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Infections; Interviews; Laboratories; Male; Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data; Medical personnel; Medical tests; Medicine and health sciences; Occupational health; Patients; Practice; Prenatal care; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Public health; Regression analysis; Research and Analysis Methods; Risk factors; Rwanda; Sexually transmitted diseases; STD; Tuberculosis; Young Adult; Rwanda; Netherlands

Routine provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) may increase HIV testing rates, but whether PITC is acceptable to health facility (HF) attendees is unclear. In the course of a PITC intervention study in Rwanda, we assessed the acceptability of PITC, reasons for being or not being teste...