HIV Facts
General Information
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV is most commonly spread by unprotected sexual intercourse; through sharing injecting equipment or from mother-to-child during the birth process and through breastfeeding. Without treatment, HIV damages the immune system, making the body less able to protect itself from illness. Eventually this results in AIDS, where illnesses become so serious they are life threatening.
HIV Counselling And Testing Sites
Know Your Status – Get Tested
Trinidad and Tobago has many accomplishments in our response to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Currently, the Ministry of Health is executing the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS “95-95-95” targets which state by 2025, or 95% of people who are living with HIV to know their HIV status, 95% of people who know that they are living with HIV to be on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and 95% of people who are on treatment to be virally suppressed.
Population Programme Unit
Introduction
The Population Programme Unit was established in 1969 to facilitate the delivery of fertility management services to citizens. This department is the major provider of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in the country. These services include fertility management in all primary care facilities (Family Planning Services), the Port of Spain General Hospital and the Mt. Hope Women's Hospital, diagnostic screening of cervical cancer, first time counselling in SRH, specialist referrals and education and training programmes.
Queen's Park Counselling Centre And Clinic
The Queen’s Park Counselling Centre & Clinic provides quality health care to clients with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS, their contacts and others concerned in an affordable, sustainable and equitable manner; and also seeks to control the incidence of these diseases in Trinidad and Tobago.
