Reactions to voluntary counseling and testing in rural Malawi

Type Working Paper - On-Line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, UC Los Angeles
Title Reactions to voluntary counseling and testing in rural Malawi
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
URL http://escholarship.org/uc/item/38f1x1f7
Abstract
As part of a study that tested individuals for sexually transmitted infections in rural Malawi, we examine the reactions to the provision of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). This paper presents response rates as well as summarizing qualitative data on community comments. Our primary substantive conclusion is that despite mixed community opinions about the value of VCT, there was unexpectedly high participation in VCT. This has important implications for current methods of assessing the acceptability of VCT based on research that poses hypothetical questions rather than measuring actual behavior.

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