Effect of community-based voluntary counselling and testing on HIV incidence and social and behavioural outcomes (NIMH Project Accept; HPTN 043): A cluster-randomised trial

• Main Authors: Thomas J. Coates, Michal Kulich, David D. Celentano, Carla E. Zelaya, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Alfred Chingono, Glenda Gray, Jessie K.K. Mbwambo, Stephen F. Morin, Linda Richter, Michael Sweat, Heidi van Rooyen, Nuala McGrath, Agnès Fiamma, Oliver Laeyendecker, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Greg Szekeres, Deborah Donnell, Susan H. Eshleman
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84899625176&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/53866
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Background: Although several interventions have shown reduced HIV incidence in clinical trials, the community-level effect of effective interventions on the epidemic when scaled up is unknown. We investigated whether a multicomponent, multilevel social and behavioural prevention strategy could reduc...