Annotated Bibliography: Voluntary Counselling and Testing

* To be able to measure how the programme is progressing .
* To help in measuring long-term outcome indicators i.e. behaviour change, attitude, knowledge
etc.
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Establishment of VCT sites to strengthen the current sites. (2002).
Ref Type: Organisational research report
Ref ID: 574
Keywords: counsellor/counsellors/intervention/supervision/VCT
Abstract: In scaling up to VCT sites there are challenges that are related to the implementation.
Provinces have identified 495 VT sites that are earmarked for expansion, out of these, 359 are
operational.
The pace that Provinces are required to adopt in making services available in increase the
pressure for the Provinces to identify more and more sites. This drive towards quantity is a threat
to the provision of quality services as more effort is put to open more sites rather than to ensure
the quality of counselling service provision.
The national department is the key partner in the initiative of increasing access to VT. Its role is
to provide strategic leadership, guidance and support to provinces. In so far as the
implementation is concerned a maximum support has been give to the Provinces and we are
continued to do so.
In dealing with the issue of the provision of quality of VT services in the operational sites, it is
proposed that model sites be established. These sites will be used as demonstration sites. This
will provide Provinces with an opportunity of learning about the best practices. It is envisaged
that the learning process will be about the following:
* The provision of and maintenance of quality counselling services.
*A best approach to the supervision and support of HIV/AIDS counselors.
*The use of a well-developed system of data collection
*The Conducting local marketing interventions for promoting local VT services
* The use of monitoring tools to obtain the necessary data.
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