Exploring The Relative Costs of Contact Tracing for Increasing HIV Case Finding in Sub-Saharan Countries

Authors :: Benjamin Armbruster
Stéphane Helleringer
Linda Kalilani-Phiri
James Mkandawire
Hans-Peter Kohler
Source :: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 58:e29-e36
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011.
Abstract: Background Contact tracing (CT) has rarely been used to improve HIV case-finding in sub-Saharan Africa because of concerns regarding privacy protection and possibly high costs.

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Sub saharan
Cost–benefit analysis
business.industry
Voluntary counseling and testing
Privacy protection
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Developing country
medicine.disease_cause
Surgery
Infectious Diseases
parasitic diseases
Development economics
medicine
Case finding
Pharmacology (medical)
business
Contact tracing

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