Optimising a couples-focused intervention to increase couples' HIV testing and counselling using the person-based approach: a qualitative study in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This qualitative study explored how to optimise a couples-focused intervention to promote couples HIV testing and counselling (CHTC).

Setting

Community setting in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.

Participants

Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 couples who had participated in a couples-focused intervention and five staff members delivering the intervention. Partners were interviewed individually by researchers of the same gender.

Intervention

A couples-focused intervention comprised of two group sessions and four couples counselling sessions was previously shown to significantly increase uptake to CHTC in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. However, more than half of couples participating in the intervention still chose not to test together during f

SUBMITTER: Morton K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature