Access to HIV Services for Mobile and Migrant Populations in Antigua

are confidential and extend good customer service. There are no questionnaires available
for feedback neither is there a drop box but feedback is received word of mouth from
persons who have openly expressed their thoughts on the subject.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church has been servicing the community of Antigua offering programs to
the vulnerable populations though the key members have not had formal training in this
area. Programs range from elderly day care to home for orphan and delinquent girls and
also programs for the Hispanic population.
Outside of regularly scheduled worship services the organization has no specific opening
days nor hours though pastoral care is offered.
At the home for teenage girls, talks are done about preventing HIV and AIDS and sexual
behaviour that is not age-appropriate. No other outreach is done.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church serves the community of Antigua with its key
members, being the leaders of the Health and Temperance Departmental having been
trained in VCT. The programs offered by the department aren’t geared solely to the
vulnerable populations but to the general population. The leaders seek to engage in
counselling which encourages the general population to get tested but actual testing sites
have not been set up by the church. The position that the interviewee holds does afford
her the privilege to take part in the planning and decision making processes of the
organization and they have been putting measures in place to afford a wider population of
the church to receive training in dealing with the vulnerable populations though not in the
immediate future.
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