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HIV AWARENESS :
HIV/ AIDS INTERVENTIONS: COMMUNITY BASED CARE AND SUPPORT TO PLHA/FAA/CAA
OVERALL GOAL
To reduce the spread of HIV and impact of AIDS mitigated and to improve the quality of life of PLHAs/CAAs/FAAs and vulnerable children in the resettlement colony of Holambi Kalan and Holambi Kalan Village, Delhi (India)
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- To reduce the level of stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS and ensure the sustainability of the program by empowering the local service providers, community leaders, and vulnerable children (Peer Educator)
- To ensure that community leads a healthy risk free life by promoting VCT process for early diagnosis.
- Empowering PLHA/FAA/TB clients on home based care and improving their health status and linking them with IGP.
- Empowering and ensuring well being of CAAs and vulnerable children’s and catering their health and psychosocial needs with specific objective focussing on peer education.
- To prevent the spread of HIV within the community by focusing peer education involving vulnerable children through Support Group and local service providers.
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA-
- Resettlement colony of Holambi Kalan that comprises of about 7000 households.
- Holambi Kalan Village that comprises of 10,000 households.
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE PROGRAM
- Mass awareness and advocacy using effective means of communication.
- Capacity building networking and empowering local service providers, community leaders and vulnerable children (peer educator)
- Networking with other agencies involving in awareness in the community.
- Intensive pre and post test counseling at organizational level.
- Information sharing with HRG and help them in decision making w.r.t VCT
- Involving active group of local service providers and community volunteers in promoting VCT process.
- Life skill sessions with PLHA/FAA/TB clients on home based care.
- Direct medical and psychosocial support.
- Institutional care through referral and linkages.
- Linking PLHAs/FAAs to IGP
- Support group formation of PLHAs.
- Dissemination of the information among the targeted vulnerable children.
- Developing linkages with VT, educational, Drug Deaddiction institutions and shelter homes.
- Catering to their psychosocial, medical needs of CAAs and vulnerable children.
- Capacity building of the targeted vulnerable children with special focus on awareness generation about HIV/AIDS in the community.
- Peer education involving vulnerable children
- Capacity building and empowering active local service providers/RMPs
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