Basic Services Division

Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre is a place where a person is tested and counseled for HIV, on his own free will or as advised by a Medical Practitioner.

ICTC is a single window for the following services:

• Increasing awareness about HIV/AIDS and its modes of transmission
• Strengthening prevention and facilitating behaviour change
• Counsel HIV negative clients to remain negative life- long and HIV Positive to prevent the further spread of HIV as well as access continuum of care services
• Provide psychosocial support through referral to social peer support through District level networks
• Identifying the need of PLHIV requiring Opportunistic Infection prophylaxis and access to ART
• Reduce parent to child transmission of HIV
• Screen for TB symptoms and refer patients for diagnosis and treatment
• Facilitate early management of HIV related infections and STIs
• Screening for Syphilis