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Prevention Unit

Prevention, Care and Treatment (PCT) Department

HIV testing in progress during a community outreach to Karmajiji Internally Displaced Peoples Camp in Abuja, Nigeria The primary goal is to ensure that 95% of all people living with HIV know their status and are linked to core HIV/AIDs services within the four states supported under the ACTION to Sustain Precision and Integrated HIV Response towards Epidemic Control (ASPIRE) project namely Federal capital Territory (FCT), Katsina Nasarawa, and Rivers States.

Persons at High Risk for HIV (PHRH):

The mandate is to locate and reach out to the PHRH including but not limited to adolescents, men and other persons at substantial risk for HIV. The PHRH are targeted to disrupt the transmission chain of HIV by finding those living with HIV, offering prevention services and linking them to appropriate treatment, care and support services.

Approaches employed include strategically testing PHRH who are likely to be positive using a risk profile-based approach. This approach relies on behavioural and biological markers for HIV. To this end, testing is done for all PHRH presenting with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), low condom use, high risk sex, and PHRH with sero-discordant partners. We also attempt to screen for mental health issues of the PHRH.

ASPIRE Project is collaborating with some reputable Community Based Organizations towards the achievement of these objectives.

Violence Prevention

The unit is also saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the prevention of violence across all sub-populations and to provide effective post violence care and management to survivors of violence. This is implemented across the general populations within the facilities and the PHRH within the communities.