Comprehensive HIV PREVENTION Package
- Comprehensive HIV PREVENTION Package:
- General Public Information
- Creating HIV awareness
- Health education
- HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT)
- Commencing treatment of ART for HIV positive patients early
- Implementing evidence based scientific studies
- Addressing social and structural determinants:
- Poverty, Gender Inequity and Human Rights violations
- Recruiting and up-scaling of VMMC in RLS
- Reaching WHO targets of circumcision
Benefits of the UNICIRC Instrument for Up-Scaling VMMC
- Circumcision completed at a single visit
- Safe, needle-less, bloodless and sutureless
- Single provider procedure, no requirement for scheduled return visit for removal
- Circumcision is complete at time of procedure, Rapid healing within 4 weeks by Primary Intention
- All-in-one kit available: least amount of consumables
- Ideally suited for recruiting patients and up-scaling VMMC in Resource Limited Settings
- Allows easy task shifting of Health Professionals / Circumcisers
- Use the fast track model to further up-scale and reach targets
- Integrating the PRIVATE SECTOR, instead of trying to integrate ALL VMMC's into existing services (which is severely limited by financial constraints and lack of human resources)