HIV testing attitudes, AIDS stigma, and voluntary HIV counselling and testing in a black township in Cape Town, South Africa
SOURCE: Sexually Transmitted Infections
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.C.Kalichman, L.C.Simbayi
KEYWORDS: CAPE TOWN, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS COUNSELLING, TOWNSHIP
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 2815
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7826
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7826
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.C.Kalichman, L.C.Simbayi
KEYWORDS: CAPE TOWN, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS COUNSELLING, TOWNSHIP
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 2815
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7826
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7826
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Abstract
A cornerstone of HIV prevention in South Africa is voluntary HIV antibody counselling and testing (VCT), but only in five South Africans aware of VCT have been tested. This study examines the relation between HIV testing history, attitudes towards testing and AIDS stigmas.-
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