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Table 4 Standard HIV/AIDS Interventions used by UNAIDS to measure resource needs and resource availability in low-and middle-income countries

From: HIV/AIDS: global trends, global funds and delivery bottlenecks

Prevention Interventions

1. Mass media campaigns

2. Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT)

3. Condom social marketing

4. School-based AIDS education

5. Peer education for out-of-school youth

6. Outreach programmes for sex workers and their clients

7. Outreach programmes for men who have sex with men

8. Harm-reduction programmes for injecting users

9. Blood safety

10. Public sector condom promotion and distribution

11. Treatment of sexually transmitted infections

12. Workplace prevention programmes

13. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission

14. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)

15. Safe injections

16. Universal precautions

17. Policy, advocacy, administration and research

Care Services

1. Palliative care

2. Diagnosis of HIV infection (HIV testing)

3. Treatment for opportunistic infections

4. Prophylaxis for opportunistic infections

5. Antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, including laboratory services for monitoring treatment

Orphan Support

1. Community support for orphan care

2. Orphanages

3. School fee support for orphans

  1. UNAIDS, 2003