Sentence examples for disclosure uptake from inspiring English sources

Key messages included, adherence to treatment, encouragement of disclosure, uptake of the Basic Care Package, avoidance of stigmatizing HIV positive individuals and the importance of seeking care at health facilities when sick.

This can facilitate HIV status disclosure, stimulate VCT uptake and lead to safer sexual behaviours [ 8, 9].

This is in contrast with the anticipated benefits of HIV disclosure for optimal uptake and adherence to PMTCT interventions.

However "blaming" stigma - where people living with HIV were considered responsible for acquiring a "moral disease" - persisted in the community and anticipating it was a key barrier to disclosure and VCT uptake.

A review on couple centred counselling shows that partner involvement in HIV testing not only helps to increase disclosure, condom use and uptake of ARV prophylaxis but also contributes to the lower rate of seroconversion compared to individual counselling [ 8].

This service is like the service on diabetes, heart patients'... .......... (service provider, ART clinic) This process of "normalisation" had three demonstrable positive outcomes: (1) facilitating HIV status disclosure, (2) stimulating VCT uptake, and (3) helping ART users cope with enacted stigma and sustain treatment.

HIV/AIDS stigma is associated with sexual promiscuity, hinders disclosure of serostatus, and affects uptake of preventive programs (Zungu-Dirwayi, 2004).

Disclosure helps to facilitate the uptake of HIV testing among recipients of the disclosure.

Topic guides explored issues surrounding HIV testing, ART uptake and adherence, disclosure of HIV and experiences at the health care centre.

For MSM in Malawi, however, the likelihood of action towards accessing such information through disclosure of risk practices and uptake of services is challenging and influenced by many factors.

Although VCT centers, particularly in antenatal settings, have worked to increase uptake and assisted disclosure among women in the setting of potential stigma and violence, there are indications that the number of women who visit a health care provider during their pregnancy may have decreased since HIV testing has been promoted at antenatal care centers [ 6].