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. 2006 Feb;11(2):176-81.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01548.x.

Condom use after voluntary counselling and testing in central Mozambique

O D Mola  1 , M A Mercer, R J Asghar, K H Gimbel-Sherr, S Gimbel-Sherr, M A Micek, S S Gloyd
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Condom use after voluntary counselling and testing in central Mozambique

O D Mola et al. Trop Med Int Health. 2006 Feb.
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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS in changing risky sexual behaviour in central Mozambique.

Method: Longitudinal cohort study of men and women aged at least 18 years from October 2002 to June 2003. We interviewed 622 participants in VCT groups and 598 in non-VCT groups. The interviews occurred before counselling and 4 and 6 months afterwards.

Results: Reported use of condoms while having sex with a friends/prostitute increased over each time period in the VCT group and between baseline and first visit in the non-VCT group. Both men and women in the VCT group increased their condom use over time, but the women in the non-VCT group did not. Reported always/sometimes use of condoms for both literate and illiterate subjects was higher and rose over time in the VCT group.

Conclusion: People who undergo voluntary counselling and testing fro HIV/AIDS change their behaviour, presumably as a result of their counselling.

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