Using Lay Counselors to Promote Community-Based Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing in Rural Northern Ghana: a Baseline Survey on Community Acceptance and Stigma

Access to voluntary counseling and HIV testing (VCT) remains limited in most parts of Ghana with rural populations being the least served. Services remain facility-based and employ the use of an ever-dwindling number of health workers as counsellors. This study assessed approval for the use of lay counselors to promote community-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV and the extent of HIV/AIDS-related stigma in the Kassena-Nankana district of rural northern Ghana. [from abstract]

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