Number of health facilities that provide HIV testing and counselling services
Availability of TC services in health facilities.
Knowledge of HIV status is critical to expand access to HIV treatment, care and support, and prevention. Availability of testing and counselling (TC) services is the pre-requisite for scaling up TC coverage so that more people know their HIV status, which can be expanded through voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and provider initiated testing and counselling (PITC) models.
Number of health facilities that provide HIV testing and counselling services
This indicator is intended to monitor availability of TC services as countries continue to expand TC. It does not intend to capture quality of TC services provided.
To look at progress in the number of health facilities which provide testing and counselling. Analyzing the data geographically and by type of health facilities, and triangulating it with population data, can provide insight into where there is a need to increase availability of TC services.
It is recommended that every health facility has the capacity to offer testing and counselling in generalized epidemics. In low-level and concentrated epidemics, the goal may not be to have TC services available in every facility.
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