Factors associated with HIV-testing and acceptance of an offer of home-based testing by men in rural Zambia.

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Published in AIDS Behav on March 01, 2015

Authors

B Hensen1, J J Lewis, A Schaap, M Tembo, W Mutale, H A Weiss, J Hargreaves, H Ayles

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK, Bernadette.hensen@lshtm.ac.uk.

Associated clinical trials:

Community-based Distribution of Oral HIV Self-testing Kits | NCT02994329

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