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PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WESTERN CAPE - SERVICES: HIV/AIDS
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ATICC Resource Library
The ATICC Resource Library is open to the public and has information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB. The Library consists of a comprehensive collection of videos, periodicals, articles, training manuals, research papers, reports, directories, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and flipcharts. It is a reference ...  > 
Anti-Retroviral Therapy
Antiretrovirals are medicines used to treat people with HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) infection.  > 
Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT)
Mother to child transmission happens when HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is passed from a mother to her unborn baby during pregnancy, during birth or during breastfeeding.  > 
Resources provided by ATICC
ATICC supplies condoms, pamphlets, booklets and posters to the public. The items are free and sunject to change and availability ...  > 
Treatment of Opportunistic Infections
Treatment is available for opportunistic infections that, unlike HIV, are mostly curable. These include diarrhoea, tuberculosis, pneumonia and candida (oral or vaginal thrush), which an HIV-positive person can pick up easily because their immune system is weakened by HIV. Treatment for opportunistic infections is available ...  > 
Voluntary Testing and Counselling
Voluntary Testing and Counselling (VCT) is available at ATICC, as well as at most clinics of public health facilities. The decision to be tested is a voluntary one - no one can be forced to have an HIV test.  > 
The content on this page was last updated on 18 April 2007
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