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TitelThe impact of comprehensive HIV/AIDS care on stigma and testing : learnings and experiences from Haiti  
AuteursA. Castro, P. Farmer
Jaar2005
TijdschriftExchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender
Serienummer1
Pagina's30-31
ISSN[1871-7551]
OrganisatieKIT - Royal Tropical Institute
OnderwerpHealth and Nutrition
TrefwoordenHIV and AIDS, disease prevention and control, aid programmes
RegioCaribbean
LandHaiti
SamenvattingHaiti is by far the most impoverished country in Latin America and, not coincidentally, the region’s most HIV affected country, with an adult prevalence of around 6%. Since 1988, Zanmi Lasante – Partners In Health (PIH)’s sister organization in Haiti – has provided voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV free of charge to the population of the Central Plateau. Since 1998, in the framework of the HIV Equity Initiative, PIH has purchased antiretroviral drugs to treat patients living with HIV/AIDS, also free of charge. Preliminary data from research in rural Haiti suggest that the introduction of quality HIV care can lead to a rapid reduction in stigma, resulting in increased uptake of VCT.  
TaalEngels
CategoriePractice
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