Abstract
HIV counselling and testing (HTC) is an integral component of HIV preventive strategies. Despite an increase in the number of HTC sites, HIV testing uptake among young women in Tanzania is relatively low compared to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Highlights
35.3 million people were estimated to be HIV infected by 2012 [1]
Our findings revealed that 105.26% of the changes in HIV testing uptake in 2003-04 vs 2007-08 surveys was due to differences in the effects of compositional factors
The increase in HIV testing uptake could be attributable to the wider availability of rapid HIV testing kits, the rolling out of free antiretroviral therapy which started in December 2004, as well as national campaigns to promote testing [17,24]
Summary
Increased Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) coverage led to the decline in morbidity and mortality related to HIV and its associated opportunistic infections [2,3,4]. One of the prevailing concepts of HIV prevention effort is through increasing the number of patients being tested and treated. Increasing those receiving ART in the population reduces community viral load (CVL). The idea behind reducing CVL is that as the number of individuals being tested and receive ART increases, greater numbers of HIV-infected persons will be virologically suppressed, leading to ClinMed
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