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The AIDS Community addresses challenges related to achieving National AIDS Control Programme objectives for treatment and care of persons living with HIV and AIDS and preventing the spread of new infections.

What is the Solution Exchange for the AIDS Community?

The AIDS Community addresses the challenges facing the successful achievement of Millennium Development Goal 6, and in particular India’s National AIDS Control Programme objectives with respect to preventing new HIV infections, assuring quality treatment and care of People Living with HIV (PLHIV), and mitigating the impact of HIV on individuals, communities and the country as a whole.

Solution Exchange connects members of this Community and increases the effectiveness of their individual efforts, helping them share and apply each other’s knowledge and experience. Through Solution Exchange, colleagues can turn to their peers across India for solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.

What are some of the issues covered by this Community?

The AIDS Community focuses on the issues to be covered in the National AIDS Control Programme, including:

HIV prevention
Condom programming
Testing, care and treatment
Communication and advocacy
Stigma and discrimination
Universal access
Mainstreaming
Orphans and vulnerable children

Who should become a member of the AIDS Community?

People Living with HIV (PLHIV)
Staff of government agencies at all levels
Who are the leaders of this Community?
Staff of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and community service organizations
Community health workers
Public and private sector physicians, nurses and other health professionals
Social services providers
Researchers, scientists and academics
Other professionals in the AIDS field and all interested members of the general public

The Community is guided by a “Resource Group” of individuals representing key organizations and agencies working on HIV and related issues in India:

Government of India
Non-Governmental Organizations
Medical and nurses associations
Academic institutions
UN agencies
The Community is facilitated by UNAIDS.

Community Testimonials

Case Study: Voice to Practitioners – Reconstitution of the co-ordination mechanism for the Global Fund to combat AIDS, TB and Malaria

The Global Fund to combat AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) has an India Country Coordination Mechanism (I-CCM) - a "national consensus group" operating as an overall guiding body for the use of GFATM grants.

Success Story: Client friendly fund transfer lead to increase in utilisation of welfare scheme for CABA

There is a unique welfare scheme for children affected by HIV/AIDS (CABA), implemented by the Government of HP under NRHM. (Himachal Pradesh is a hill state in north India with health indicators above national averages, the HIV is in its initial phase- low prevalence high vulnerability).

The beneficiaries include children living with HIV as well as HIV negative children of parents living with HIV.

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Donors: Irish Aid | Swiss Agency for Development & Co-operation (SDC)

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