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| Andhra Pradesh Counsellors Project (APCP) |
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| Andhra Pradesh Counsellors Project (APCP) is being implemented by LEPRA Society with the support from APSACS and UNICEF. APCP focuses on building up the capacity of the counsellors in the Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing Centers (VCCTC), Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission Centers (PPTCTC) and Integrated Counselling and Testing Centers (ICTC) so as to enable them to provide quality counselling services and in the process help in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
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The objectives are:
- To provide quality counselling and testing services to all who visit the Centre
- To prevent the transmission of HIV infection from mothers to children through Nevirapine administration to mother-baby pairs
- To promote voluntary counselling and testing services
- To expand access to the centres
- To facilitate access to information, condoms and related health-care services
- To maintain HIV negative people to remain negative through counseling and bringing in behavioral change in individuals
- To reduce the psychological morbidity in individuals and also in the community
- To integrate the services in to general health-care services for better access
- To provide psychological support to the individual and his or her family to reduce psycho-somatic disorders and to make them gain social support
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