Voluntary HIV Counselling And Testing Case Study

“Voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) is the process by which an individual undergoes counselling enabling him or her to make an informed choice about being tested for HIV and must be entirely the choice of the individual and he or she must be assured that the process will be confidential” (UNAIDS, 2000).
Importance of HIV testing and counselling in HIV prevention and treatment
HIV testing is very important program and claimed as a critical point of entry in both national wise as well as regional wise for people to know their status so that to receive care, support and treatment including ARTs for those with seropositive and protect their partners especially pregnant women to protect their unborn with HIV infection. Also to change sexual
The main reasons for making use of the service, majority of them 374(89.9%), were to know their HIV status, while 16(3.8%) wanted to engage in marriage (Dirar, Mengiste, Kedir, & Godana, 2013). Study from Western Kenya shows that among 609 Bodaboda operators in Ndhiwa, only 232 were enrolled for the study. 71.9% of the participants had been tested at least once in their lifetime. And most of operators who had gone for the test were singles 75.4% compared to 8.3% of married operators. For those refused to accept VCT services, the most common reason was due to the fear of being seen at a VCT site with other people especially VCT site where the operator is known (Odhiambo, Kikuvi, Omolo, & Wanzala,
2; Effectiveness of VCT, Improving information, Education and Communication to advocate the benefits of VCT and raising community awareness which may be able to reduce required time for pre-test counselling. 3; Barriers on HIV testing, Most of countries, people fear to go for testing HIV positive because of stigma, discrimination and lack of confidentiality or seen by their relatives going to the VCT center for the test (UNAIDS,