ABSTRACT
Community Care Centre (CCC) is a comprehensive facility-providing medical, counseling, referral and outreach services to the registered PLHIV. The overall goal of the programme is to improve the survival and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS. Envisioned as a home away from home, CCC is a facility for providing accessible, affordable, and sustainable counseling, support, and treatment to PLHIV. With the medical services being an integral and important part of the programme, CCCs have a critical role in helping PLHIV gain easy access to ART treatment and counseling on primary prevention, nutrition, drug adherence, etc. The main functions of these CCC are providing treatment to the registered PLHIV on various types of Opportunistic infections/side effects, providing quality of counseling, providing home based care through outreach component and LFU tracking as per the list given by ART Centers. Currently 35 CCCs are in functional among 5 states and 1 union territory of India. A total of 66,471 PLHIV were registered with the CCCs and availing various services till December 2012 for smooth implementation of the programme, HLFPPT has been monitoring and providing constant technical support to the Community Care Centers (CCCs) scattered among the state above said states.
