Reinforcing the Scaling Up of HIV Services: Strengthening HIV Prevention and Effective Targeting

Program goal: To reduce new HIV infections and deaths among men, women, children and neonates in the next 3 years

Strategies:

Promote integration of sexual reproductive health and HIV services with emphasis on key populations;
Provide HIV prevention information and services for key populations (Female sex workers (FSW)and men who have sex with men (MSM));
Target HIV care and prevention efforts in four high priority regions which have 58% of the country’s population, and where HIV prevalence is more than twice the national figure. These regions also include 75% of people living with HIV in Ghana as a whole. The four regions also contain the hot spots for FSWs and MSM; and
Strengthen and fund community systems to improve prevention, access to care and follow up among affected populations, and assignment of individual civil society organizations to support program implementation.

Planned activities:

Conduct Behavior Change Communication and Information, Education and Communication for key populations using peer educators;
Distribute male and female condoms among key populations;
Expand counseling and testing sites;
Reduce stigma and discrimination in all settings;
Conduct community outreach through peer educators;
Provide STI prevention packages, and expand referral system for STI diagnosis and treatment; and
Strengthen civil society and institutional capacity building (coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting).

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