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Abstract
This paper reports an innovative cross-national, comparative study of counselling around the HIV-antibody test based on transcripts of recordings of counselling interviews. It reveals recurrent patterns in the ways in which patients and counsellors name patients' partners. The implications of these patterns for professional practice are discussed in the context of justified calls for the evaluation of HIV counselling.