FACT provides care and support services to sex workers, transgendered individuals and men who have sex with men, and retains these clients in care, helping them to achieve wellness and graduate into independent individuals.
Comforting Hearts implements a care and support program that seeks to eliminate stigma, discrimination and other onerous experiences related to HIV treatment and care for Key Population members Living with HIV/AIDS and People Living with HIV/AIDS; continues to mobilize the community to assist OVC; and provides a gender-sensitive afterschool program, life skills training, and linkages with vocational and job readiness training and expand gender-based violence awareness and prevention programs.
Artistes designs client-responsive interventions for MSM, sex workers and their clients at higher risk for HIV infection and transmission. Artistes will provide 3-5 of the services recommended as national standard for the minimum package of prevention services –outreach education, mobile testing and small group level HIV preventive interventions that are based on evidence and meet the minimum standards required prevention education.
YCG addresses the HIV prevention needs of Most-at-Risk Populations (MARPs) and addresses stigma and discrimination through strengthening the network of sex workers to support prevention and skill building of their colleagues and other MARPs in the community; engaging sex workers in community mobilization and outreach; creating networks to reduce the number of women and girls who engage in sex work; and provide HIV testing services to sex workers, miners, and adjacent community members in Region 8, coordinated with prevention services.
As part of its efforts to overcome stigma and discrimination challenges, APC conducted quarterly sensitization sessions at Guyanese HIV care and treatment sites. In 2017, 66 people, including medical doctors, nurses, community health workers, auxiliary staff, and security personnel, participated.
Michelle, a client advocate associate with the APC project in Guyana, links people who are newly diagnosed with HIV to care and treatment, and helps people who have stopped coming for care to return.
Given mounting global evidence highlighting the correlation between experiencing violence and increased vulnerability to HIV infection, Guyana must tackle the causes of gender-based violence head-on.
FACT provides care and support services to sex workers, transgendered individuals and men who have sex with men, and retains these clients in care, helping them to achieve wellness and graduate into independent individuals.