Keep talking about it: HIV/AIDS-related communication and prior HIV testing in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Thailand

• Main Authors: Ellen Setsuko Hendriksen, Daniel Hlubinka, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Alfred Chingono, Glenda Gray, Jessie Mbwambo, Linda Richter, Michal Kulich, Thomas J. Coates
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine; Psychology
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=72449185145&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/49280
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Informal, interpersonal communication within a community about HIV and AIDS, or lack of such communication, may influence community members' uptake of voluntary counseling and testing. Drawing from Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory, this study examined the association between commu...