Xavier Plaisancie is a doctor. His thesis, carried out with the support of Jean-Hervé Bradol and Marc Le Pape, members of the MSF-Crash Research Centre, focused on the "Representations of HIV and impact on care seeking among the men of Homa Bay, Kenya".
Xavier Plaisancie
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Representations of HIV and impact on care seeking among the men of Homa Bay, Kenya
This study, conducted among the men of Homa Bay in Nyanza Province, Kenya, assesses the representations of HIV and impact on care seeking. It reveals that simply setting up a testing or care campaign does not necessarily mean that the entire population will participate; the message has to be tailored to the target population and fine-tuned even within that population.