Can Traditional Health Practitioners Deliver HIV Counseling and Testing Services? A Pilot Study in Rural South Africa
Traditional healers in rural South Africa successfully completed a rapid, point-of-care HIV counseling and testing training. The clients of trained healers were largely willing to be tested; referral of those with a positive result to treatment proved more difficult to implement, with only 60% of those testing positive enrolling in HIV treatment services.
Authors
- Carolyn Marie Audet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4715-1346)
- Kathleen Kahn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-3931)
- Jennifer Hove (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5392-8537)
- Wonderful Mabuza
- Tshegofatso Seabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-5246)
- Ryan G. Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-3676)
- Taofik Oyekunle
- Taylor Carty
- جيلالي محمد بوحمامة
Institutions
- South African Medical Research Council (ZA)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (ZA)
- Vanderbilt Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/qai.0000000000003712
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.79