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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

Community and Home Based Care – Reaching Out to Women and Children in Pakistan

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