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facility‐based approach in which selected health facilities within and near the study clusterswere involved in returning test results to participants. Persons who received their test resultswere provided post‐test counselling, and if infected they were provided referrals to HIV and<strong>STI</strong> prevention, care, and treatment services.This section outlines the methods used to return test results to participants and the datamanagement and analysis procedures used to analyze data on persons who came to selectedhealth faciltlies to have their test results from the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong> returned to them.Organization and structure of returning test results to participantsNASCOP coordinated the activity for returning test results to participants in closecollaboration with the NHRL. The NASCOP coordinator for returning test results providedoverall technical, administrative, and logistical oversight of the activity for returning testresults to participants. Trained health workers (results counsellors) who returned test resultsto participants provided appropriate counselling and referral according to nationalguidelines for voluntary counselling and testing. Counsellors recorded information aboutparticipants who returned for results and any referrals that were made during the session.The NASCOP data management team coordinated entry of this information into a databaselinked to the questionnaire and laboratory databases, and the cleaning of these data.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 291

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