{"id":115557,"date":"2021-06-29T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=115557"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:09:54","slug":"integrated-counselling-and-testing-centres-ictc-for-hiv-aids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/integrated-counselling-and-testing-centres-ictc-for-hiv-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC) for HIV AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0About:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0An ICTC is a place where a person is counselled and tested for HIV, of his own free will or as advised by a medical provider.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Background:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">HIV counselling and testing services were started in India in 1997. As on 31st August 2016 in India, there are 20,756 Integrated Counselling and Testing\u00a0Centres\u00a0(ICTC), mainly located in government hospitals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Main functions:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"27\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Conducting HIV diagnostic tests.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"28\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Providing basic information on the modes of HIV transmission, and promoting\u00a0behavioural\u00a0change to reduce vulnerability.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"29\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Link people with other HIV prevention, care and treatment services.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0About:\u00a0An ICTC is a place where a person is counselled and tested for HIV, of his own free will or as advised by a medical provider.\u00a0 Background:\u00a0HIV counselling and testing services were started in India in 1997. As on 31st August 2016 in India, there are 20,756 Integrated Counselling and Testing\u00a0Centres\u00a0(ICTC), mainly located in government&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/integrated-counselling-and-testing-centres-ictc-for-hiv-aids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC) for HIV AIDS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}