A Cohort Study of Factors Associated with Failure to Return for HIV Post-Test Counselling in Pregnant Women: Kigali, Rwanda, 1992-1993

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in AIDS, "Objective: To identify factors associated with failure to return for HIV post-test counselling in pregnant women in Kigali (Rwanda). Subjects and Methods: In the context of a study on the impact of HIV infection on pregnancy, HIV-1-antibody testing was offered to all pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic of the Centre Hospitalier de Kigali from July 1992 to August 1993. Pre-test counselling was performed after verbal informed consent was obtained. Two weeks later, we formally enrolled all HIV-positive women and a corresponding number of HIV-negative women in a cohort. At this visit, post-test...

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