Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Provider-initiated HIV testing in rural Haiti: low rate of missed opportunities for diagnosis of HIV in a primary care clinic. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Open Access Short report Provider-initiated HIV testing in rural Haiti low rate of missed opportunities for diagnosis of HIV in a primary care clinic Louise C Ivers 1 3 Kenneth A Freedberg2 and Joia S Mukherjee1 3 Address Department of Medicine Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston USA 2Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston USA and 3Partners In Health Boston USA Email Louise C Ivers - livers@ Kenneth A Freedberg - kfreedberg@ Joia S Mukherjee - jmukherjee@ Corresponding author Published 29 November 2007 Received 19 January 2007 . A -n T AAA-7 o _J_ .IA I n .-nA ZZAC A AO Accepted 29 November 2007 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007 4 28 doi l742-6405-4-28 This article is available from http contentM 1 28 2007 Ivers et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract As HIV treatment is scaled-up in resource-poor settings the timely identification of persons with HIV infection remains an important challenge. Most people with HIV are unaware of their status and those who are often present late in the course of their illness. Free-standing voluntary counseling and testing sites often have poor uptake of testing. We aimed to evaluate a provider-initiated HIV testing strategy in a primary care clinic in rural resource-poor Haiti by reviewing the number of visits made to clinic before an HIV test was performed in those who were ultimately found to have HIV infection. In collaboration with the Haitian Ministry of Health a nongovernmental organization Partners In Health .
