Community Mobilizers Protocol

1. Community Mobilizers Protocol

2. HBHCT: Household Mobilization VisitKey Points • Explain the HBHCT Program of the IEIP/GAP • Purpose of the HBHCT program • Increase access to HIV testing • Get more HIV+ people into treatment • Promote couple and family-centered care and prevention • For IEIP: measure the types of illness among HIV+ people • Increase awareness/knowledge about HIV and AIDS • Share benefits of knowing one’s HIV status • Helps relieve anxiety and fear related to not knowing/suspecting your HIV status • If HIV negative: enables you to plan on how to avoid acquiring HIV • If HIV positive: enables you to be referred for care/treatment early, enables you to plan on how to avoid transmitting HIV to others • Helps individuals and couples disclose HIV status to other household/family members • Components of the HBHCT program • General community mobilization • Mobilizer visit and scheduling • Trained counselor visit: pre-test counseling, rapid HIV test, post-test counseling, referral to free services, questionnaire • Follow-up visit for HIV+ people • Assure confidentiality and voluntary informed consent • Review eligibility • Answer questions about program logistics and HIV in general • Answer questions • HIV risk: sex without a condom, mother-to-child, blood transfusion, sharing sharps/needles • HIV prevention: get tested, always use condoms, learn partner’s HIV status, talk about STIs with partners, use sterile sharps and avoid sharing sharps, get/be circumcised, use family planning, use PMTCT interventions during pregnancy, consider appropriate breastfeeding options • Write down questions that need to be deferred to the counselor visit; later, give list to counselor • Schedule HBHCT counselor household visit