COMMUNITY MOBILISATION WORK ON PMTCTANCS – SÉNÉGAL

MAGATTE MBODJExecutive Director

ACTIVITIES FOR COMMUNITY PMTCT

Capacity building of CBO/NGO on PMTCT Participation in PMTCT campaigns Home visits to pregnant women IEC/BCC and awareness-raising activities Meetings between districts to share best

practices Discussion groups organised on

operational PMTCT sites between community agents and health staff

Support to increase collaboration between community agents and health services

Technical support to implementing partners

PMCT Innovative Activities

Pregnant women solidarity circles Grandmothers’ strategies Niches with men Counselling and Voluntary Testing

with couples Inter district meetings Dialogue spaces in PMCT operational

sites “Tableau lumière” for monitoring

pregnant women and mother/child couple

ILLUSTRATIONS Pregnant

Women Solidarity cercle

Counseling Session with a couple

Challenges Insufficient programmes integrating

HIV/SRH/PMTCT Disruption of rapid HIV tests kits Reluctance of some pregnant women to

get their HIV result tests Reluctance of pregnant women to get

HIV tested Stigmatisation of pregnant HIV+ women

PERSPECTIVES Partnership building for HIV/SRH integration Resource mobilisation to scale up HIV/SRH

integration Develop effective and appropriate

strategies for the implementation of activities integrating HIV/SRH

Provide community agents with communication and audio visual materials

More awareness-raising targeting men for increased accompaniment of women

Strengthening the production of communication materials

Thank you for your

attention