Targeted Intervention among Injecting Drug Users(IDU), Transgender(TG), Female Sex Workers(FSW), Migrants on HIV/AIDS
District of Nagaon and recently created district of HOJAI, Assam.
Injecting Drug Users, Transgender, Female Sex Workers and Migrants.
Provide proper counselling to the targeted group; Behaviour Change Communication to address specific vulnerabilities of key populations; early diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI)
Voluntary counselling and testing, reduction in HIV, and AIDS through proper intervention among the Injecting Drug Users. Fostering an enabling environment to reduce stigma and discrimination
Assam State AIDS Control Society and NACO
The Injecting Drug Users (IDU), Transgender (TG), and Female Sex Workers (FSW), are identified by the Outreach workers (ORW), then they select the Peer Educators (PE) among them, primarily counselling done by the counsellor then they are motivated to visit the Drop-in Centre (DIC) spend time in a healthy environment, the IDUs/TG/FSW are counselled to protect themselves from the transmission of HIV. They are advised to use one needle and should not share them. Needles are supplied to the IDUs. FSW and TGs are counselled to have protective sex using condoms which are also supplied to them or they purchase from the social marketing cell. In the DIC one doctor attends the IDUs and provides specific treatment with the help of ANM. The Counsellor and Project Manager along with ORWs, PE attends the hotspot zone and conducts meeting on Behavioural changes, HIV/AIDS, STI etc.
A large number of youth boards trains at Lumding Railway Junction every day in search of livelihoods in Southern and Western States. Most of them are early n their adolescence and not much educated. They lack information about healthy lifestyles and often feel or are lured by the sex workers in the destination cities. Peer pressure to have alcohol and sex with commercial sex workers sometimes makes them vulnerable to Sexually Transmitted Diseases which may culminate in AIDS.
The Out Reach Workers attend the Station and Bus Stops regularly and interact with them in groups they also hand over Informative Booklets in their vernacular.
Health camps are organized in the source villages to screen the families of the migrants at frequent intervals with the help of the State Health and Family Welfare department.
The High-Risk Group, Migrants their family members and sexual partners
To reduce and check to spread of HIV/AIDS and STDs in society. A comprehensive understanding of HIV /AIDS by the HRG and the Society and their family.
