Tebelopele offers quality HTS to everyone which includes individuals, couples, child and adolescent, key populations regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation and without stigma, discrimination and judgement. These services are provided through different modalities which include: static centres, outreaches to the communities, workplaces and underserved populations.
During the Pre-test counselling session an HIV Counselor establishes rapport with a client assures confidentiality and ensures a conducive environment where a client will feel relaxed and comfortable to discuss issues surrounding HIV. The session also identifies the risks the client has come across and provides the counsellor with time to explain the process of conducting the HIV test and possible results. The last session being Post Test Counselling is all about receiving the results and accepting them, risk reduction plan, disclosure plan and referral for relevant services.
In ensuring quality HTS, Tebelopele ensures both the Internal and External Quality Assurance practices where on weekly basis counsellors run quality control samples and proficiency testing twice a year. In addition to these, supply chain management is applied across all the Tebelopele Centres and the warehouse. Counsellors are also observed on regularly basis, combined with regular technical and mentorship visits to ensure quality HIV Counselling and Testing.
Tebelopele has now integrated HIV with other health services in some select centres with the goal to expand quality integrated health services provision to all its eighteen centres across Botswana. HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing can be offered through different approaches such as in outreaches, work place, mobile and satellite sites, and in a freestanding site.
VCT services in Tebelopele are provided through facility based services, stand-alone freestanding centres and mobile outreach programs. In the facility based VCT approach, services are offered in Centres situated in major villages with a certain defined population.
