6.1.1: Behaviour
Improve behaviour, particularly the high risk groups. Other Information:
Medium-term Expected Outcomes -- The medium-term expected outcomes include: improved behaviour change of people particularly
the high risk groups which include the youth, commercial sex workers, mobile and other vulnerable populations; increased number
of people accessing voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) management services;
increased number of women accessing the Preventive Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services; improved health status or
extended life of the infected people through increased uptake of ARVs and nutritious diets and nutrition therapy; and community
home based care services; protection and care of children and families affected by AIDS; and improved planning, management
and coordination of all stakeholders and development partners in the fight against HIV and AIDS increased number of traditional
counsellors trained in HIV and AIDS education. Key Strategies -- HIV and AIDS requires a multi-pronged approach of prevention
and treatment to reduce its spread and impact. Main strategies include: * Improving knowledge and capacity of young people,
orphans, the elderly and physically challenged and other vulnerable groups to practice safer sexual intercourse and increase
their access to HIV testing and counselling; and behaviour change. * Initiating and strengthening joint planning, monitoring
and evaluation processes among national authorities, stakeholders and development partners; * Implementing and increasing
equitable access to ARVs and treatment of opportunistic infections; * Building and strengthening the capacity of public and
private organizations to mainstream HIV and AIDS into their core businesses; * Promoting high quality community home-based
care services, adequate nutrition, including provision of nutrition therapy for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA); *
Expanding services for prevention of mother to child transmission, testing and counselling, access to condoms, STI management,
and access to behaviour change communication; * Integrating the elderly, orphans and the physically challenged affected by
HIV and AIDS into the mainstream development * Promoting adequate nutrition, including provision of nutrition therapy that
cover assessment, counselling, education and demonstration, supplementary feeding, therapeutic feeding, referral to health
facility and production of high nutritive value foods for a nutritious diet to HIV and AIDS individuals; * Producing, enacting
and enforcing HIV and AIDS legislation. * Improving the provision of support and protection of the infected and affected
groups; and * Building capacity at all levels in the national response to HIV and AIDS with special focus for local service
delivery.
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