Knowledge asset on Linking care and prevention

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If SALT visits are frequently carried out, they can increase the uptake of VCT services.

Si vous organisez fréquemment des visites SALT, l'utilisation des services de dépistage augmenteront.

20 truckers go for testing after a SALT visit
A SALT team held a visit at Mlololongo VCT after discussions with Long distance Truck drivers, the drivers decided to go for testing, about 20 LTDs knew their status. (Onesmus - Kenya)


If infected people are cared for and trained they can provide care and preventive services to others effectively

Si nous nous soucions des personnes vivant avec le VIH et nous les formons, ils pourront fournir des soins et faire de la prévention

A positive HIV woman taking care of others after being motivated as a counselor and care giver. (by Onesmus Mutuku)


If people know their sero-status they can easily care for themselves and others.

Si les gens connaissent leur statut sérologique, ils pourront plus facilement prendre soin d'eux-mêmes et des autres

Le teste pour prendre soin de soi
Après s'être fait testé, la communauté de Ruhuha a formé une association afin de se soutenir et de soutenir d'autres. (par Consolée Kamaro - Burundi)

Chain reaction when sharing your status openly
A SALT team (truckers and PLHIV) visited Musaga community of sex workers and after exchanging experience and seeing that PLHIV are open to tell their status, sex workers who were aware of their status openly shared their status, one by one. Some became members of the PLHIV network. (by Thérèse Ntahompagaze - Burundi)


If both the positive and negative sex workers are sensitized on condom usage, they can use condoms to prevent and care for themselves and their clients.

Si les professionnelles du sexe sont sensibilisées par rapport à l'utilisation des préservatifs alors elles peuvent se prévenir ainsi que leur client

No condom no sex

After several SALT visits in Kampala, sex workers started systematically demanding their partners to use condoms. (by Benedicta Nabingi- Uganda)


If young people are supported by people they trust, they will increase the uptake of condoms to prevent new infections among themselves and others.

Si les jeunes sont soutenus par des personnes en qui ils ont confiance, ils augmenteront l'utilisation des preservatifs pour prévenir de nouvelles infections.

Distributing condoms secretly The condom agent was accused of distributing condoms to the youth in Michezani. Farouk is therefore distributing condoms in secret to the young people. (by Farouk Abdillah- Zanzibar)


If enough sensitization sessions are carried out with CSW to care and to prevent themselves from catching HIV, they will improve their well being.

Si suffisemment de séances de sensibilisation sont organisées sur la manière dont les professionnelles de sexe peuvent se prévenir du VIH, elles seront en meilleure santé.

Collaboration between PLHIV and truckerss
Sexual pratices carried out by CSW in Zanzibar using condoms as prevention and care for their lives. (Clement Chacha - Tanzania)

If truck drivers are well sensitized on the use of condoms, they can use condoms to care and to prevent themselves and their partners.

Si les camionneurs sont sensibilisés sur l'utilisation du preservatif, ils peuvent les utiliser pour se prévenir ainsi que leurs partenaires.

"We all learn from each other"
Truck drivers in Chalinze have sex with food vendors without using condoms. (Steven Wandella - Tanzania)