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A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2013
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Title
A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-220
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Authors

Maurice Musheke, Harriet Ntalasha, Sara Gari, Oran Mckenzie, Virginia Bond, Adriane Martin-Hilber, Sonja Merten

Abstract

Despite Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being the epicenter of the HIV epidemic, uptake of HIV testing is not optimal. While qualitative studies have been undertaken to investigate factors influencing uptake of HIV testing, systematic reviews to provide a more comprehensive understanding are lacking.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Kenya 2 <1%
Mozambique 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Botswana 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 633 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 152 23%
Researcher 97 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 69 11%
Student > Bachelor 50 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 42 6%
Other 125 19%
Unknown 113 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 182 28%
Social Sciences 111 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 89 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 4%
Psychology 21 3%
Other 87 13%
Unknown 132 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2023.
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#1,968,847
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,198
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#16,264
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#21
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