HIV testing in Europe: Mapping policies

Jessika Deblonde, Herman Meulemans, Steven Callens, Stanley Luchters, Marleen Temmerman and Françoise F. Hamers

Health Policy, 2011, vol. 103, issue 2, 101-110

Abstract: In the absence of treatment and in the context of discrimination, HIV testing was embedded within exceptional procedures. With increasing treatment effectiveness, early HIV diagnosis became important, calling for the normalization of testing. National HIV testing policies were mapped to explore the characteristics and variations across European countries.

Keywords: HIV testing; Testing policy; Europe; Exceptionalism; Normalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.06.012

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