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SUBMITTER: LaCourse SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4424115 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 20150501 1
The optimal approach of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) for inpatients in high-burden settings is unknown. We prospectively evaluated the implementation of task shifting from clinician-referral to counselor-initiated PITC on the medical wards of Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi. Most of patients (1905/3154, 60.4%) had an unknown admission HIV status. Counselors offered testing to 66.6% (1268/1905). HIV prevalence was 39.3%. Counselor-initiated PITC significantly increased HIV ...[more]