What is Voluntary Counselling and Testing?
It is the entry point for HIV/AIDS care, prevention and support, This will enable the person concerned to take caution or go for necessary medical attention. What are the benefits of Voluntary Counseling and Testing? – It helps the individual come to term with his or her status. – It helps in giving understanding to what they can and should do about HIV. – It helps the infected person to plan for the future Why pre and post counseling? Pre – test counseling helps a person to determine whether testing is the best decision and how to prepare for the test. Post- test counseling inforns aperson of the test results and helps with future choices and decisions based on those results – It helps early management of the infection – Reduces mother to child transmission N. Is there any cure for HIV/ AIDS? There is no vaccine for AIDS for now, neither is there a cure for HIV/AIDS. In the absence of cure, prevention is the only way to combat this killer disease.
