VCT Events: Country Case Studies, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Brazil

摘要

In December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly proposed the hosting of International Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Days as an effective way of increasing access to, and awareness of, VCT services. The main premise of this proposal was to scale up nationally driven, sustainable, and comprehensive responses to achieving broad multi-sectoral coverage for prevention, treatment, care and support. This document profiles the experiences of three countries Malawi, Ethiopia, and Brazil in planning, implementing, and evaluating their VCT events. Taken together, the experiences of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Brazil highlight some of the key issues common to VCT event planning, implementation, and evaluation, including: 1) obtaining support from high-profile leaders; 2) involving key stakeholders in the planning and implementation of the VCT event; and 3) addressing the challenges in supply chain management, human resource capacity, and quality assurance of the VCT process. While Malawi, Ethiopia, and Brazil successfully generated high demand for testing by organizing mass media and community outreach campaigns that involved a variety of stakeholders, each country also faced challenges in planning, implementing, and evaluating their VCT events.