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Aims & Objectives |
- Educating the community on facts about HIV/AIDS through community meetings, seminars and one-to- one contact.
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To offer counselling services to people with HIV/AIDS and their families
- Support of orphans and vulnerable children
- To sensitise the public and promote positive attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS and their families
- To minimize the social ills caused by HIV/AIDS through materials support to clients and their families
- One-to-one counselling which empowers the infected person to make informed decisions which improve quality of life and achieve a balance between rights and responsibilities
- Sensitive and compassionate care which provides early diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections, and hence living positively and dying with dignity
- Strengthen counselling for family members to dispel their fears of contracting HIV through casual contact, facilitate care of infected and affected people, and prepare the family for and support them during bereavement
- Make referrals to different places where these people can get help
- Build and support community based efforts initiated to respond to the AIDS epidemic.
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