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Public Health

HIV/ AIDS Strategy

Public Health/HIV/AIDS Strategy:

• Accelerate HIV/AIDS prevention education interventions. (Integrating HIV/AIDS awareness modules in to AIF’s livelihood and education programs is an excellent and reliable platform for diffusing basic facts about disease prevention and )
• Expand overall public health responsiveness to HIV/AIDS (Support to treatment training for medical personnel and building capacity of community based integrated HIV/AIDS services will expand services; AIF’s partnership with Avahan will broaden impact of interventions and resources available at the community level)

Public Health HIV/AIDS Overview:
The first case of HIV was diagnosed in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 1986 among sex workers. Soon after, a number of screening centers were established throughout the country. Initially the focus was on screening foreigners, especially foreign students. Gradually, the focus moved on to screening blood banks. By early 1987, efforts were made up to set up a national network of HIV screening centers in major urban areas.

India’s HIV/AIDS Challenge: Face of the Crisis
HIV has spread to each and every Indian State and territory. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra (especially Mumbai), Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tamil Nadu, with 45 districts have a particularly high prevalence of HIV/AIDS . In other states such as Goa and Gujarat the epidemic is concentrated in a few districts.

(NACO) HIV/AIDS programs in India have focused predominantly on high-risk groups such as migrant laborers, truck drives, sex workers and intravenous drug users. However, of the 40 percent HIV infections among women, only 0.5% sex workers. Additionally, HIV prevalence is moving from the urban centers to the rural populations: rural 58.6%, urban 41.4%, with a population split of 72.2% rural, 27.8% urban including in groups that are most affected.