Satara DAPCU – Response to Question of the Month February 2012 - Facilitating ICTC to Pre ART Registration

1. Accompanied Referral:Accompanied referral by Counselors, Lab Technician, ORW of PPTCT NGO or DIC can do the major roll in effective linkages from ICTC and ART.
2. Effective counseling of ART importance:If the client found positive the counselor should do the effective counseling on importance of ART in post test or follow up counseling.
3. Home visits: Home visit is an important tool for developing the linkages from ICTC to ART. Counselor, ORW, Peer educators, coordinator,  should do  home visits and DAPCU should monitor it.
4. Effective coordination with DIC & PPTCT NGOs:When the client is  LFU then DIC & PPTCT NGOs can play a vital role to link them at ART
5. Perfect documentation of address and contact numbers:Various times the clients are not giving proper address or contact no. Hence the counselor should motivate the client for sharing the right address and contact numbers.

This post was in response to the February 2012 theme