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BMC International Health and Human Rights BioMed Central Research article Open Access Acceptability of HIV counselling and testing among tuberculosis patients in south Ethiopia 1,2 2 1 Degu Jerene* , Aschalew Endale and Bernt Lindtjørn Address: 1Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway and 2Arba Minch Hospital, Ethiopia Email: Degu Jerene* - degujerene@; Aschalew Endale - aschalewendale@; Bernt Lindtjørn - bernt.lindtjorn@cih.uib.no * Corresponding author Published: 30 May 2007 Received: 22 July 2006 Accepted: 30 May 2007 BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007, 7:4 doi:10.1186/1472-698X-7-4 This article is available from: /1472-698X/7/4 © 2007 Jerene et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: To benefit from available care and treatment options, patients should first be counselled and tested for HIV. Our aim was to assess the acceptability of HIV testing among tuberculosis patients under routine care conditions in south Ethiopia. Methods: We interviewed all adult tuberculosis patients who were treated at Arba Minch Hospital i