ArticleAfrican journal of AIDS research : AJAR2012
Poor-quality health services and lack of programme support leads to low uptake of HIV testing in rural Mozambique.
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- Adapting an adherence support workers intervention: engaging traditional healers as adherence partners for persons enrolled in HIV care and treatment in rural Mozambique.Implementation science : IS · 2017Article
- Impact of a primary care national policy on HIV screening in France: a longitudinal analysis between 2006 and 2013.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2016Article
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- Engagement of Traditional Healers and Birth Attendants as a Controversial Proposal to Extend the HIV Health Workforce.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Review
- Symptomatic HIV-positive persons in rural Mozambique who first consult a traditional healer have delays in HIV testing: a cross-sectional study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2014Article
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Abstract
Mozambique has one of the world's highest burdens of HIV infection. Despite the increase in HIV-testing services throughout the country, the uptake has been low. To identify barriers to HIV testing we conducted a study in six rural districts in Zambézia Province. We recruited a total of 124 men and women from the community through purposeful sampling to participate in gender-specific focus group discussions about barriers to HIV testing. The participants noted three main barriers to HIV testing: 1) poor conduct by clinicians, including intentional disclosure of patients' HIV status to other community members; 2) unintentional disclosure of patients' HIV status through clinical practices; and, 3) a widespread fatalistic belief that HIV infection will result in death, particularly given poor access to adequate food. Improving quality and confidentiality within clinical service delivery, coupled with the introduction of food-supplement programmes should increase people's willingness to test and remain in care for HIV disease.
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