More than 4.1 million tested for HIV under VCT@WORK initiative
International Labour Organisation - "The Voluntary Counselling and Testing at work (VCT@WORK) initiative has reached over 6 million workers and family members. Of those, more than 4.1 million were tested for HIV and 103,000 referred to access anti retro-viral treatment.
A total of more than 4.1 million workers and family members have been tested for HIV as part of the VCT@WORK (voluntary counselling and testing at work) initiative, according to a new report.
(...) “For an informal economy worker, accessing HIV testing means loss of at least half of his or her daily wage, plus the transport cost. We addressed root causes such as these and took services closer to where people live and work. VCT@WORK also shows that is an effective way to reach men with HIV services who are not yet adequately covered in the AIDS response,” said Syed Mohammad Afsar, the ILO official in charge of VCT@WORK in Geneva." (Photo: Rapid HIV test/UNICEF Ethiopia/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)