Integrating HIV Prevention in the Care Setting: Health Manager’s Guide

This publication, published by FHI 360 (formerly Family Health International), is intended for use by health care managers in low-resource settings as a guide for the development of HIV prevention programmes in the care setting. The document contains information outlining programme planning and counselling techniques, along with a section containing a series of tools that managers can use as templates for programme activity and assessment.

The publication structure is divided into the following sections:

• Overview
  1. The Role of Prevention in Ending the AIDS Pandemic
  2. HIV Prevention in the Care Setting - reinforces the importance of focusing on prevention efforts toward those living with HIV/AIDS as well as those at risk
  3. Intended Audience and Use of this Guide
• Planning for Prevention
  1. Description of Manager Role
  2. Steps of Plan Development
• How to Talk to Clients about Prevention
  1. Techniques and Examples of Counselling
• Planning for Prevention Tools
  1. Staff Self-Assessments
  2. Client Exit Surveys
  3. Checklists
  4. Brainstorming Grid
  5. Sample Action Plan