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In order to continue the strategy of the mobile clinic, the Service Yezu Mwiza organizes field trips to meet the beneficiaries close to home and thus reduce the long-distance journey they make to arrive at SYM in order to receive the medical and psychosocial care.

It is in this context that such activity took place in the CDS MATARA premises on April 18, 2019 by a SYM team composed of two nurses to distribute the ARVs, a mediator of health to give a therapeutic education for a good follow-up of HIV treatment and a laboratory assistant to test the viral load.

today’s therapeutic education focused on indexed screening and reproductive health with a focus on family planning and sexually transmitted infections (STIs): the mode of transmission, the mode of prevention, treatment and the adverse consequences of ill-treatment of STIs.

The health mediator made them understand that basic education is essential, so that if parents set a good example for their children, they will behave well in the future.

Behavioral strategies to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV include attempts to postpone first sexual activity, reduce the number of sexual partners, and promote appropriate and consistent use of effective prevention strategies.

Regarding indexed screening, the beneficiaries of MATARA have understood this logic and have already asked their partners, children and all members of their entourage to make voluntary testing to know their health status.

Beneficiaries are satisfied with SYM's services in this locality as one of them testifies:

"My name is Anastasie I am 43 years old and mother of 5 children, I know the Service Yezu Mwiza since it was called JRS, if not its help and support, I would be more of this world.
Before I was alone it was as if the world had stopped for me, but today, with SYM, meeting every month here together makes us family, we share positive experiences, which helps us to know how to deal with similar problems, we really feel at home with these groups of words.

The SYM gives us medicines and a therapeutic education and this comforts us a lot and encourages us to behave responsibly. The teachings given by the health mediators have been of paramount importance because it has pushed us to have all our children screened for their HIV status.

”For example, those who do not follow this therapeutic education like us, do not take the right drugs for lack of follow-up, they drink too much alcohol out of ignorance which often leads to a relapse that can even lead to death.
I take this opportunity to thank SYM because it has practically reduced our journey to get the drugs, the money we should pay for the trip can help us buy some food to get some strength. "