HAPCSO focuses on the entire prevention and care continuum.

Home-Based Care

• Implement home-based care that is accessible, equitable and effective.
• Enable and empower health professionals to care and cope with HIV/AIDS victims in their community.
• Visit and educate patients’ families about proper care and treatment for opportunistic infections.

Prevention

• Organize HIV/AIDS prevention workshops and seminars for high school students, teachers, women’s associations and other community based organizations.
• Educate the most vulnerable people: commercial sex workers and factory workers.
• Promote voluntary counseling and testing.

Job Training

• Technical, vocational and life skills training
• Agricultural/horticultural training
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Micro-credit lending

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Support for Orphans and Vulernable Children

• Psychosocial orphans
• Educational
• Health and Nutrition
• Housing
• Legal
Further Reading: Extending a Lifeline, One Child at a Time

Community Capacity Building

• Build on existing structures: idirs, associations, religious groups, volunteers
• Enhance the collective capacity of the community to provide care and support.
• Train peer educators and volunteers.
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