Barriers to and acceptability of provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling and adopting HIV-prevention behaviours in rural Uganda

In Uganda, a nationwide scale-up of provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling presents an opportunity to deliver HIV-prevention services to large numbers of people. In a rural Ugandan hospital, focus group discussions and key informant interviews were conducted with outpatients receiving provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling and staff to explore the HIV-prevention information, motivation and behavioural skills strengths and weaknesses, and community-level and structural barriers to provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling acceptability and HIV prevention among this population. Strengths and weakness occurred at all levels, and results suggest brief client-centred interventions during provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling may be an effective approach to increase prevention behaviours in outpatient settings

Environmental health · Family medicine · Focus group · Health facility · Health services · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Population · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Strengths and weaknesses · Voluntary counseling and testing · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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