The overall goal of the IMPACT/Haiti program was to work with Haiti’s MOH and its partners to implement the country’s National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, which aims to reduce the risk for HIV transmission, mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS, and reduce the vulnerability of Haitian people to HIV. To date, USAID/Haiti has provided $8,576,395 in field support funds to IMPACT/Haiti.

KYS specific objectives

these will include promotion, support, communications and tools. For demo purposes we define promotion to mean blatant marketing of self. Communications mean speaking loudly, even shouting and tools mean the ole hammer and saw. Here are the details.  

The Benefits of Testing

HIV testing and counseling services play an important role in the early detection of and timely treatment for people with HIV, and allow people with risky behaviors and/or greater vulnerability to HIV infection have access to prevention, care, and treatment services. HIV testing and counseling services offer significant benefits, since they:

Status of testing in the countries.

The need to increase access to HIV prevention,care, and treatment has led to greater access to HIV testing and counseling services. In only five years and in more than seventy countries surveyed, the use of HIV testing and counseling services quadrupled. Formerly totaling four 4 million in 2001, it has soared to 16.5 million in 2005. In 2005, nearly 772,000 people learned their serological status in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries.