1. Why is positive prevention important?
- Because, HIV prevention programmes not only gives information, but also build skills for healthy living and provides access to essential commodities such as condoms or sterile injecting equipments.
- It is very necessary to prevent the HIV virus embedding in to new ones to achieve the goal of halt and reverse the epidemic.
2. What are the strategies for positive prevention underway in your district?
- Advocacy with the different stakeholders and stress on mainstreaming of HIV/ AIDS is every one's accountability. We are providing training for health care providers regarding essential health care needs of the PLHIVs.
3. What role does the DAPCU play in this regard?
- We are communicating to the grass root level health professionals about HIV prevention, during meeting at Block / PHC and APHC level and district level health consultants are also giving support to us in this regards. We are doing supportive supervision in all the peripheral facility centers for giving better support to PLHIVs and also ensuring clear & correct is going to common mass to serve the cause of positive prevention.
- In district level meeting, we are convincing all concerned line department’s officials to facilitate PLHIVs in getting all available social benefit schemes provided by the government in this regard.
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