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Community HIV Counselling and Testing A Handbook on Participatory Needs Assessment

Health Systems

HIVAIDS
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Community HIV Counselling and Testing (COHCT) is an approach that utilises existing community competencies in dealing with HIV/AIDS in general, and HIV counselling and testing in particular. The COHCT concept is premised on the knowledge that HIV counselling and testing is an entry point into HIV prevention, care and support and that communities have a primary role to play in the HIV/AIDS intervention. The approach utilises participatory methodologies to engage community members in analysing their HIV/AIDS situation, and, from the existing social mechanisms and structures, identify the options that would enable them mobilise for HCT and thereafter deal with the usual outcomes of HIV test:

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African CDC 112 0 Public Health Resources Technical Report Health Systems HIVAIDS Uganda Programme for Human and Holistic Development (UPHOLD
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