Twenty-four medical students and faculty at the Evangelical University of El Salvador successfully completed the Capacity Project’s training course in voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV, held March 10-12 in San Salvador.

The course content included HIV/AIDS counseling skills, clarification of misconceptions about populations vulnerable to HIV, practices for discussing risk reduction with clients and VCT protocols. To use their newly acquired skills and help the community, the students counseled approximately 50 fellow students and visitors who received free HIV testing at the University’s health fair, supported by the Ministry of Health’s mobile unit, on March 28.

The Capacity Project’s work in El Salvador supports the continued expansion of pre-service and in-service training for health workers to improve HIV/AIDS care.

April 2009