HIV/AIDS

New findings reported from University of California describe advances in HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 29th, 2008

"Changing community norms to increase awareness of HIV status and reduce HIV-related stigma has the potential to reduce the incidence of HIV-1 infection in the developing world. We developed and implemented a multilevel intervention providing community-based HIV mobile voluntary counseling and testing, community mobilization, and posttest support services," scientists in the United States report.

"Forty-eight communities in Tanzania, Zimbabwe. South Africa, and Thailand were randomized to receive the intervention or clinic-based standard voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), the comparison condition. We monitored utilization of community-based HIV mobile voluntary...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-12-29)

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