Reaching the most poor with HIV voluntary counselling and testing and treatment of infectios: An incidence Research in rural Kilombero district, Tanzania.

Sponsor: INDEPTH

IHRDC investigators: M Bunini, S Mtenga, R Nathan, B Idindili, O Mukasa and H Masanja

Partners: INDEPTH, Kilombero district Council Health Management Team (CHMT), and Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (IHRDC).

The project intends to contribute towards improvement of equity in access to Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services and treatment of opportunistic diseases related to HIV and later ART in the poorest communities. It is establishing a platforzm for later Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART), monitoring and evaluation programme under a well established Ifakara Centre Demographic Surveillance System (I-C DSS). To achieve the anticipated results from the communities served the VCT information is linked to the household socio-economic data available through the I - C DSS.