HIV Prevention

Hi Maria,
That's a brilliant question, I previously visited a certain clinic here in Tanzania and realized that loss of confidentiality has led to a decrease in number of VCT.
I am still doing a through investigation, the following reasons might be the source

- Writing patient names on top of the folder that stores patient file, this is easily read by anyone and hence confidentiality breach. To solve this, I have advised the clinicians to write only patient unique CTC number at the cover of the folder.
- There was information leakage done by some staffs (Expert patients) who were responsible for testing and counseling. This has changed the willingness of the society to get HIV test. A number of people have decided to go for testing in the healthy centers that are far allocated.

The site uses paper record system, however there is a plan to migrate into
Computerized syatem.
Best regards,
Edwin

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