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HIV Counselling and Testing Overview

This document discusses HIV counseling and testing, including legal and ethical aspects of client and provider-initiated testing, counseling approaches that involve building relationships and assessing risk, the counseling process of providing information about HIV and prevention strategies and implications of test results, pre-HIV test counseling to anticipate and prepare for results, and post-HIV counseling after negative, positive, or inconclusive results including crisis intervention, follow-up care, and disclosure support. It also covers counseling children and adolescents.

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HIV Counselling and Testing Overview

This document discusses HIV counseling and testing, including legal and ethical aspects of client and provider-initiated testing, counseling approaches that involve building relationships and assessing risk, the counseling process of providing information about HIV and prevention strategies and implications of test results, pre-HIV test counseling to anticipate and prepare for results, and post-HIV counseling after negative, positive, or inconclusive results including crisis intervention, follow-up care, and disclosure support. It also covers counseling children and adolescents.

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Legal and ethical aspects a) Client-initiated counselling & testing


b) Provider-initiated counselling & tesing
2. Approaches to HIV
Chapter 13: HIV Counselling and testing
counselling and testing a) Relationship building
b) Reasons for testing
c) Assessment of risk
3. Counselling process d) Knowledge about HIV & prevention strategies
e) Information about the test
f) The implications of an HIV test result
4. Pre-HIV test counselling g) Anticipate the results
h) The way forward
i) Support networks and waiting period

a) Counselling after negative HIV result


b) Counselling after positive HIV result
- Prepare yourself before giving result
- Sharing result with client
- Client reaction to positive HIV test result
- Responding to client's needs
- Linkages, retention and continuum of HIV care
5. Post-HIV Counselling - A plan for the next 24 hours
- Follow-up visits
- Disclosure
- Crisis intervention
c) Counselling after inconclusive HIV result

6. Counselling children and a) Confidentiality and disclosure


adolescents

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