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Indicator name:
HIV – testing and counselling facilities
Data type:
Count
Indicator Id:
2925
ISO Health Indicators Framework
Health system
Rationale:
Knowledge of HIV status is critical to expand access to HIV treatment, care and support, and prevention. Availability of testing and counselling (TC) services is the pre-requisite for scaling up TC coverage so that more people know their HIV status, which can be expanded through voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and provider initiated testing and counselling (PITC) models.
Definition:
Number of health facilities that provide HIV testing and counselling services.
Method of estimation:
Two possible sources of information:  1) Central register of all Testing and Counselling sites; 2) Central test procurement records for the number of facilities requesting kits.
Preferred data sources:
Facility registers and other program monitoring tools
Expected frequency of data dissemination:
Annual
Indicator Metadata Registry List
Situation and trends The number of facilities providing testing and counselling continue to increase. A total of 129 low-and middle-income countries submitted data on the availability of HIV testing and counselling services in health facilities in 2014. HIV testing and counselling services were provided by 177 000 health facilities in 2014 compared to 143 000 health facilities in 2011 (129 countries), 131 000 in 2010 (119 countries), 107 000 in 2009 (118 countries), 78 000 in 2008 (111 countries) and 30 300 in 2007 (78 countries).
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