DISCORDANT COUPLES REGAINING THE HOPE FOR A SAFER AND SECURE RELATIONSHIPS AND MARRIAGES.

One of the big elephants in the HIV prevention and care is the discordant relationships and marriages, where one of the partners is HIV positive and the other is HIV negative. The positive partner being ART the negative partner is expected to be on PrEP with eligibility screening.

This is a peek module with a number of interventions e.g. EBAN-K reaching a total of 120 individuals in 6 CCC facilities in Alego Usonga Sub County focusing on enhancing communication amongst the couples, creating a safer space for them, security and improving on their love life and privacy in concern to issues on accidental disclosure and stigma surrounding discordance, the intervention also geared towards psychosocial support for the positive partner and prevention and support for the negative partner.

The DC peer model program line listing 488 discordant individuals, testing 82 for HIV and enrolling 21 on preventive PrEP, focusing on peer approach has been a great deal in the service provision and psychosocial support amongst the cohorts. With trained 15 peer educators spread around 10 facilities we have cushioned them and given safer space for cross sharing and learning to ensure zero new infections and adherence among our cohort peers.

 

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