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Satyajit Das1, Mia Huengsberg, Keith Radcliffe
1Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Whittall Street Clinic, Whittall Street, Birmingham B4 6DH, UK. sat.das@ntlworld.com
Abstract:
In the Sexual Health Strategy, the targets of HIV testing uptake in genitourinary medicine clinics (GUM) are set at 40% by year 2004 and 60% by 2007. We assessed the uptake of HIV test amongst GUM clinic attendees, more than six months after introducing an information leaflet in place of verbal pre-test counselling (PTC). The uptake rate was significantly higher than in a previous audit conducted in the same year, two weeks after introduction of the leaflets (62% vs 50%, P =0.001).
