Introduction

My name is UGIRASHEBUJA Jean Luc; I am a Rwandan medical student at the National University of Rwanda. For 4 years ago, I was voluntarily working on HIV/AIDS issues. I have participated in different anti-HIV activities such as Workshops about HIV and Gender issues, Candle light Memorial March2007 and 2008, HIV Village sessions and Cine-mobile, VCT campaigns, People Living with HIV Sessions and Assistance, etc
Recently I discovered that HIV Test is the only entry point for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care. Since then I have already initiated two different projects:

-VCT Campaign Project-GYCA, 2008
-Mobile VCT Project-MTV, 2008

Both of them focus on VCT as an entry point for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care.
Courses:
I have done the following courses:

-GYCA courses on Project Management, preparation to the Mexico IAC and Political Advocacy.
-Global Health Learning Centre courses on HIV Basics (Part 1), Family Planning 101, Standard Days Method, Tuberculosis Basics, Youth Reproductive Health, achieved Exemplary level

Activities carried out

The first step of the project execution is Project preparation which includes:

-Contacts
-Training of volunteers and
-Announcement of the Home-based campaign

As we are at the very beginning of the project, we have already made contacts with different government leaders in order to request for permission to implement our project activities. Yet, Rwanda Village Concept Project/RVCP (www.rwanda-vcp.org), Medical Student Association of Rwanda/MEDSAR (www.medsar.org), and Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Rwanda have approved our request. We still waiting for only MUKURA Sector reaction to our request and I believe that all will be arranged by the end of this week.