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Community and Home Based Care – Reaching Out to Women and Children in Pakistan
• KP province and the tribal belt, bordering with Afghanistan
• HIV prone province because of migration /deportations
• Women and children - discrimination and neglect
• Known PLHIVs, 70 % males, seldom declare their HIV status at home - stigma
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Community and Home Based Care – Reaching Out to Women and Children in Pakistan
• CHBC project targeted the women and children of the enrolled male PLHIVs
• Home based testing with rapid diagnostic kits through trained female outreach workers / Voluntary Counseling & Testing (VCT)
• Referral for Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART)
• Referral for Prevention from Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services
• Socio-economic support to PLHIVs and their family members
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• In year 2013, a total of 962 women partners of the enrolled male PLHIVs were tested:
• Among them 102 (11%) were HIV positive and were referred for further care at the ART sites
• Similarly 281 children were tested in one year time, 31 (11%) among them were positive for HIV
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• CHBC approach raised the number of women and children in HIV treatment, care and support facilities
• Addressed the gap / gender imbalance
• Facilitated access to most at risk communities and brought them into mainstream continuum of care
• Replicable and scalable in similar situations of marginalized communities and hardest to reach areas
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