Access to HIV Prevention Information
Our HIV prevention programmes ensure that individuals have access to and information about the use of commodities to prevent HIV infection.
Tailored resources and commodities need to be provided for those who cannot afford or access them. These include:
- condoms and lubricant, including choices that exist locally and information on how to use them effectively, and alternatives such as the female condom
- sterile injecting equipment, or in its absence commodities for effective sterilisation, such as bleach, and information on how to use them
- commodities provided through outreach programmes to sites and settings where sexual and drug-taking activity occurs, such as commercial sex premises, non-commercial outdoor sites where people meet to make sexual encounters and places where drug injecting commonly occurs
- commodities provided through a variety of healthcare settings, such as sexual and reproductive health programmes, and
- targeted resources to accompany the distribution of commodities, to ensure their effective use and to promote access to VCT, HIV prevention and treatment, care and support programmes.