Disclosure of Hiv status to sexual partners among people who ...

• Train more health workers to serve couples, conduct couples’ counselling and testing
and provide supported disclosure to clients who need support. Where supported
disclosure is required, counsellors should be skilled enough to provide the service or
appropriately counsel the client on which approach to useTASO should give priority
to issues of women economic empowerment and equipping clients with life skills
during programming to ensure that they are supported to disclose without fear of
negative outcomes
Traditional and cultural leaders need to be involved and educated about issues of gender
inequality, HIV/AIDS and PMTCT.
For Health workers
Given the consequences posed by sexually transmitted strains of HIV to partners,
prevention information giving to enhance adherence as well as building behavioural
interventions skills interventions will be required by the clients
• Regular health talks and use of IEC materials about HIV disclosure should be made
more available to support clients.
• To further de-stigmatise the community, encourage supportive structures at facility
and community levels. Discordant couples’ clubs, Positive men’s union (POMU),
Mama’s club and other Peer support groups that are instrumental in serostatus
disclosure and other prevention strategies like PMTCT, FP and increased male
involvement in prevention and care services.
For Clients
• PLHIV in the Peer support groups can be encouraged to share information and
experiences with their peers who have not disclosed and support them to do so.
• The music dance and drama sensitisations conducted by TASO clients who are open
about their serostatus and have gone public should be targeted as another avenue to
share information and demonstrate how disclosure to sexual partners could be
conducted.
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