HIV Testing and Counseling
HIV Testing and Counseling
 | Facts about HIV Testing and Counseling in Nepal - Voluntary Testing and Counseling of HIV was first started in Nepal in 1995 at National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC). - HIV testing and Counseling is the entry point for overall HIV and AIDS case services. It is provided free of cost to the Most at Risk Populations, including general population from all over the country. - There is a National Guidelines for Testing and Counseling of HIV in Nepal, first developed in 2003, and updated in 2007. Download this publication |
| The East Asia and Pacific region currently has an HIV adult prevalence of 0.2 percent – the lowest in the world. An estimated 2.3 million people are living with HIV in the region, including 750,000 women and 50,000 children below the age of 14 Download this publication |
| As access to antiretroviral treatment is scaled up in low and middle income countries, there is a critical opportunity to simultaneously expand access to HIV prevention, which continues to be the mainstay of the response to the HIV epidemic. Without effective HIV prevention, there will be an ever increasing number of people who will require HIV treatment. Among the interventions which play a pivotal role both in treatment and in prevention, HIV testing and counselling stands out as paramount. Download this publication |
| Voluntary HIV testing accompanied by counselling has a vital role to play within a comprehensive range of measures for HIV/AIDS prevention and support, and should be encouraged. The potential benefits of testing and counselling for the individual include improved health status through good nutritional advice and earlier access to care and treatment/prevention for HIV-related illness; emotional support; better ability to cope with HIV-related anxiety; awareness of safer options for reproduction and infant feeding; and motivation to initiate or maintain safer sexual and drug-related behaviours. Other benefits include safer blood donation. Download this publication |
