VCT offers a chance for the populace to make out their HIV status with the support of quality counseling, to assist them to handle an affirmative or a negative test result. To endorse VCT as an entry point for the prevention of HIV, United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) requires keeping on advocating and holding up the stipulation of superior quality counseling and testing for HIV in the perspective of HIV prevention programs for the youth, expectant women and also for their partners, and for those persons who are most susceptible to the infection.
In several Sub-Saharan African countries like Zimbabwe, Uganda, Mozambique, and Kenya AIDS have affected the development achieved in widening life expectancy. UNFPA’s authorization as it connects with HIV or AIDS is its prevention. Like this, VCT becomes the main constituent of UNFPA’s HIV defensive mandate. . The “stigmatization blockade affects victims of HIV” (Avert, n.d.) and many of the HIV or AIDS workers, who are every so often excluded from the labor they do. The VCT objective is regularly failed when people do not return for testing after getting preliminary pre-test counseling.
The factor that makes people not come forward for testing on a voluntary basis is their fear to face the fact of them being HIV positive. Usually, tests are frequently done only when the sufferer begins to show signs of being unwell. This factor restrains the objectives of VCT in promoting avoidance and a healthy way of life. A. Opening Statement: The significance of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) has resulted in the broader encouragement and growth of VCT services. VCT is still not available often widely in the top-prevalence countries.
For VCT priorities should be given to services and resources should be offered for their growth, illustrating the efficiency of VCT is necessary. Background of the Study: a. Summary of the Literature Framing History of the Project: Populations of Sub-Saharan Africa are the most deeply affected area by HIV and AIDS than any other part of the world. It is estimated that “Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 70% of new HIV infections in 2010, although there was a notable decline in the regional rate of new infections” (UNAIDS, 2011, p.7). The fiscal and social end results of the AIDS epidemic are broadly felt in the health sector and also in other sectors of industry, education, transport, human resources, agriculture, and the economy as a whole.
“Between 2001 and 2009, the incidence of HIV infection declined by more than 25% in an estimated 22 countries” (UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemics, 2010, p.8). The AIDS epidemic in the Sub-Saharan African countries keeps on destroying communities and pushing back the years of growth progress of the countries.
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