VCT Toolkit - Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV: A Strategic Framework

The HIV epidemic continues to spread at an alarming rate, with over 14,000 new infections per day. While the epidemic is now spreading rapidly in some parts of Asia and Latin America and Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa continues to bear the greatest burden of disease. HIV prevalence exceeds 30 percent among sexually active adults in some African cities, and AIDS is the leading cause of death in major cities within sub-Saharan Africa.