Recent debate about the evaluation of community based, HIV/AIDS behavioural interventions has focused on the appropriateness of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design, and the difficulty of obtaining reliable outcome measures. A community based HIV/AIDS behavioural change RCT, recently conducted in rural Uganda, used HIV incidence as the principal outcome measure. This paper examines the acceptability of the trial from the community perspective. It asks whether, in a rural African setting, it is possible to implement a scientifically rigorous evaluation without compromising acceptability of the trial to the community. Opinions of the trial held by community members working as trial field workers were collected by semi-structured inter...
Two significant challenges face researchers tracking HIV-related socio-economic and demographic chan...
OBJECTIVE: To describe study design, methods and baseline findings of a behavioural intervention alo...
Background The methods and purposes of randomization are often poorly understood by participants in ...
Recent debate about the evaluation of community based, HIV/AIDS behavioural interventions has focuse...
Recent debate about the evaluation of community based, HIV/AIDS behavioural interventions has focuse...
Investigators need, both for ethical and methodological reasons, to consider the acceptability of th...
The only means currently available to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is prevention...
This paper describes the implementation of a large community-based HIV/AIDS behavioural intervention...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is causing the most destructive epidemic of recent times, hav...
BACKGROUND: Throughout the 1990s, HIV-1 prevalence and incidence were falling in Uganda. Recently, s...
In HIV-endemic areas, traditional healers are frequently used with, or instead of, biomedical resour...
OBJECTIVE: Changing behaviour is an important method for preventing HIV infection. We examined why a...
OBJECTIVE: To understand the factors influencing choice of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) f...
OBJECTIVES: To describe how a research project on HIV epidemiology in rural Uganda has engaged the c...
Objective: Changing behaviour is an important method for preventing HIV infection. We examined why a...
Two significant challenges face researchers tracking HIV-related socio-economic and demographic chan...
OBJECTIVE: To describe study design, methods and baseline findings of a behavioural intervention alo...
Background The methods and purposes of randomization are often poorly understood by participants in ...
Recent debate about the evaluation of community based, HIV/AIDS behavioural interventions has focuse...
Recent debate about the evaluation of community based, HIV/AIDS behavioural interventions has focuse...
Investigators need, both for ethical and methodological reasons, to consider the acceptability of th...
The only means currently available to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is prevention...
This paper describes the implementation of a large community-based HIV/AIDS behavioural intervention...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is causing the most destructive epidemic of recent times, hav...
BACKGROUND: Throughout the 1990s, HIV-1 prevalence and incidence were falling in Uganda. Recently, s...
In HIV-endemic areas, traditional healers are frequently used with, or instead of, biomedical resour...
OBJECTIVE: Changing behaviour is an important method for preventing HIV infection. We examined why a...
OBJECTIVE: To understand the factors influencing choice of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) f...
OBJECTIVES: To describe how a research project on HIV epidemiology in rural Uganda has engaged the c...
Objective: Changing behaviour is an important method for preventing HIV infection. We examined why a...
Two significant challenges face researchers tracking HIV-related socio-economic and demographic chan...
OBJECTIVE: To describe study design, methods and baseline findings of a behavioural intervention alo...
Background The methods and purposes of randomization are often poorly understood by participants in ...