| Project
Name: |
HIV/AIDS Workplace Intervention Project in the Organized Power Sector of Delhi |
| Project
Area: |
GENCO & TRANSCO power plants and residential colonies, New Delhi |
| Funding
Agencies: |
Family Health International |
| Project
Duration: |
2003 to 2005 |
| Overall Goal: |
To create a workplace-based model for HIV/AIDS prevention and care by reducing the vulnerability of the employees of GENCO and TRANSCO of the Delhi power sector and their family members to HIV/AIDS and STIs. |
| Objectives: |
To create a workplace based model for HIV/AIDS prevention that can be disseminated to other organizations |
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To put an HIV/AIDS policy in place at GENCO/TRANSCO |
| Strategies: |
Establish and institutionalise Governance, Project Management and Implementation systems. |
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Create an enabling environment through sensitisation and advocacy with key stakeholders, including the management, trade union representatives and health care service providers of GENCO and TRANSCO. |
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Implement behaviour change interventions to reduce the vulnerability of workers and their family members to HIV/AIDS and STIs. |
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Establish linkages between different stakeholders to improve the referral systems for Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) and care and support services. |
| Primary
Stakeholders: |
5,600 employees of GENCO and TRANSCO and 16,800 family members |
| Other
Stakeholders: |
Casual labourers; trade unions; resident welfare associations; commercial sex workers in the slum of Yamuna Pushtha |
| Networking: |
International Labor Organization (ILO); Delhi State AIDS Control Society; World Health Organization (WHO); Environmental Health Project, USAID; Population Services International; Hindustan Latex Limited; Naaz Foundation; Sahara; Chelsea; FXB; Modicare; Lawyers’ Collective; Lady Harding Medical College; and Centre for Advocacy & Research |
| Monitoring: |
Management Information System to track and measure the progress of the project |
| Program Review: |
Family Health International will conduct participatory mid-term and end term reviews |
| Achievements: |
17 senior managers of GENCO/TRANSCO have been sensitised to HIV/AIDS
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22 paramedical staff of GENCO/TRANSCO have been trained on HIV/AIDS issues
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35 trade union representatives have been sensitised to HIV/AIDS |
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25 members of resident welfare associations have been sensitised to HIV/AIDS |
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40 male & female peer educators have been identified in the workplace and residential colonies
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Youth and women’s groups have been formed |
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166 counselling sessions with 84 clients on STI/RTI, RCH/FP and general health have taken place (23% of clients are employees) |
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8 referrals made to STI clinics |
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4 referrals made to VTC centres |
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10 condoms depots established |
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Referral linkages have been developed and strengthened with over 25 centres providing VCT and care & support |
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GENCO issued high security entry passes to SARD Health Educators so they could conduct BCC activities with workers in the power plants |
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TRANSCO issued an official order making HIV/AIDS sensitisation by SARD a mandatory component of training for new hired engineers |
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New Delhi Power Ltd. (DISSCOM) has asked SARD to undertake similar HIV/AIDS awareness programs with its employees |
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2,500 employees and their families visited a health mela organized by SARD featuring information, entertainment and food stalls |
