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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2009

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in January 2009

PPE 576 PM
Application: A Platform for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Test and Support
Applicant: Community Health Organisation for Intervention, Care and Empowerment Limited (CHOICE)
Objectives: The aims of this programme are:-
  1. to increase knowledge, to promote and to empower sex workers for safer sex;
  2. to raise awareness of STI/HIV among sex workers and their clients;
  3. to promote the VCT service (STI and HIV) and provide supports and encourage for knowing about their health status;
  4. to increase the critical mass of workers who are trained in HIV knowledge and counselling skills;
  5. to provide young gay-friendly service centre in order to provide early HIV testing and STI screening;
  6. to provide specialized assistance to persons with multiple and complex HIV risk-reduction needs;
  7. to provide individualized, multi-session HIV risk reduction peer counselling to help initiate and maintain behaviour change to prevent the transmission or acquisition of HIV;
  8. to provide information and referrals for HIV secondary prevention needs of persons living with or have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Project Duration: July 2009 to June 2012
Contact Person: Ms HO Pik-yuk, Shara
Room 1501A 15/F Witty Commercial Building
1A-1L Tung Choi Street, Mongkok
Hong Kong
Telephone: 3188 9219
Fax: N/A