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: Prof. Thomas J Coates, PhD (Author), Michal Kulich, PhD (Author), Prof. David D Celentano, ScD (Author), Carla E Zelaya, PhD (Author), Prof. Suwat Chariyalertsak, MD (Author), Alfred Chingono, MSc (Author), Glenda Gray, MBBCH (Author), Jessie K K Mbwambo, MD (Author), Prof. Stephen F Morin, PhD (Author), Prof. Linda Richter, PhD (Author), Michael Sweat, PhD (Author), Heidi van Rooyen, PhD (Author), Nuala McGrath, ScD (Author), Agnès Fiamma, MIPH (Author), Oliver Laeyendecker, PhD (Author), Estelle Piwowar-Manning, BS (Author), Greg Szekeres, BA (Author), Deborah Donnell, PhD (Author), Prof. Susan H Eshleman, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...