Principles for Implementing HIV Counseling and Testing in the Community

09:45, 11/07/2024

The Ministry of Health has just issued Decision 2673/QD-BYT on the promulgation of "Guidelines for HIV testing and counseling in the community".

HIV laboratory staff, non-HIV laboratory staff, and individuals undergoing HIV testing in the community need to know and adhere to the following principles:

- Ensure the confidentiality of information about the person undergoing HIV testing;- The person undergoing HIV testing must be provided with relevant information, the testing process, and situations that may lead to inaccurate test results;- Ensure support and counseling before and after testing for the individuals undergoing HIV testing;- Staff notifying about HIV infection to the sexual partners or the common needle-sharing partners of the HIV-infected person must have written consent from the HIV-infected person;- In addition, the conduct of HIV testing and the notification of HIV test results must have the consent and be entirely based on the voluntariness of the person undergoing HIV testing.

More details can be found in Decision 2673/QD-BYT, officially effective from April 27, 2018.

Principles for counseling and HIV testing in the community

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