Table 3.

Nurses' perceptions of barriers to introduce HIV testing among TB patients*

Perception	Health centres		Hospitals and chest clinics
	Rural	Urban	Public	Private
'Hard' patients	-	-	+	++
Additional burden	+/-	+/-	++	++
Patients offended	-	-	++	++
Stigmatization	+	+/-	+++	++
Lack of facility	+	+++	+/-	+
Communication difficulty	+/-	+/-	++	+++

* "+++" = critical; "++" = very important; "+" = "important"; "+/-" = less important; "-" = negligible