HOPE
The project seeks to address the question of HIV and AIDS by empowering people in the community with knowledge and skills on how to fight against the epidemic. This is done through community mobilization for voluntary counseling and testing, peer education, home based care, basic counseling, life skills training, peer counseling and palliative care. The Hope Humana project has a center for i
ts activities, but works with people in their communities to ensure that it is easy for people to meet, support each other and follow up on PMTCT( Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission), TB treatment, ART (Anti Retroviral treatment) and other activities. They are trained in community mobilization skills and HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support. Testing services with follow -up are also provided, and referrals are made as needed to support groups, to treatment centers and other health services. HOPE Humana cooperates with the government health facilities and local, national and international partners engaged in the same struggle to overcome and prevent the HIV epidemic and to deliver the needed service to people. Another approach in the fight to stop AIDS taken by the HOPE Humana projects is that they establish centers 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. Some HOPE Centers have own testing facilities, while others refer to and cooperate with other test centres
