HOPE Humana – the continuous fight against AIDS

Another approach in the fight to stop AIDS is taken by the HOPE Humana projects.
HOPE Humana establishes a center in the community as the base for actions to stop HIV/AIDS and to support people and communities affected by the disease.

Another approach in the fight to stop AIDS is taken by the HOPE Humana projects.

HOPE Humana establishes a center in the community as the base for actions to stop HIV/AIDS and to support people and communities affected by the disease.

From the HOPE Center, the project operates in three main lines: Health Services including Voluntary Counseling and Testing, Outreach Programs and Opinion Forming Activities.

The people around the HOPE Center are organized around these activities.In Health Services, the HOPE Center facilitates HIV testing, combined with the necessary pre- and post-test counseling. The Centers promote the local health structures and link up with them in case of opportunistic diseases such as TB, and promote ARV

treatment and adherence to treatments. Some HOPE Centers have own testing facilities, while others refer to and cooperate with other test centers.

The Outreach Programs include positive living clubs, which are supporting people living with HIV, lessons in home based care and organization of volunteers to carry out home based care, lessons in nutrition and establishment of nutrition gardens, support for orphans and their caregivers, and much more – all needed in the fight against AIDS and in dealing with the consequences of the AIDS epidemic.

The HOPE projects perform Opinion Forming Activities by speaking up about HIV/AIDS in public, through the National AIDS Councils, and by having an extensive cooperation with other organizations and institutions, such as churches and schools, on local as well as on national level.