| Project
Name: |
HIV/AIDS Prevention Program for Sex Workers, their Clients and Families |
| Project
Area: |
4 Bedia villages (Khar Ka Nagla, Blinchatpura, Premnagar and Ghatoli) and 2 neighbouring mining villages (Bansi and Paharpur) in Roopbas and Bayana Blocks, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan |
| Funding
Agencies: |
Elton John AIDS Foundation (Family Health International) |
| Project
Duration: |
April 2003 – March 2004 |
| Objectives: |
To increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and other STDs among the residents (especially high-risk residents such as sex workers) |
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To promote safe sex practices by members of these groups |
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To increase the quality and quantity of treatment for STDs received by them |
| Strategies: |
Build a cadre of volunteers who will work as peer educators to counsel sex workers in the envisaged villages mentioned above under the head coverage |
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Conduct behaviour change campaign |
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Distribute condoms to sex workers |
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Provide one-on-one counseling on safe sexual practices and STI/RTI prevention to sex workers and married couples, unmarried men & men living apart from their families in villages neighbouring those where sex workers are most active |
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Build capacities of local health care providers and program beneficiaries in STIs/RTIs |
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Strengthen referral systems for RTIs/STIs |
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Inspire stakeholders (e.g. district health authorities, ICDS, local NGOs and other service providers) to build partnerships and alliances among themselves in order to coordinate their efforts and resources to reduce the spread of STDs and to improve the welfare of those affected by STDs, especially HIV and AIDS |
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Build strong trained task forces in each village made up of peer educators, adolescent leaders, self-help group members, Bedia community leaders, CBOs, senior secondary school teachers, Sakhis, and SARD representative who will mobilize their respective constituencies to achieve program objectives |
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Celebration of World AIDS Day and award ceremony for peer educators and task force members |
| Primary
Stakeholders: |
Approximately 6,000 residents of project villages (especially sex workers, adolescents, and young married couples) and an additional 6,000 residents from surrounding mining villages (especially young married couples, unmarried men and men living apart from their families). |
| Other
Stakeholders: |
Program beneficiaries; Department of Integrated Child Development Services; Community Health Centres, Public Health Centres |
| Monitoring: |
Monthly reports and |
| Achievements: |
Project area has been mapped and base line data has been collected |
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Major indicators were workout, and these are: 56 of RTI/STI referrals to the CHC/PHC
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15 of peer educators that have been trained |
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6 condom depots have been established and 1,500+ condoms have been distributed |
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30 of counselling sessions for sex workers
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25 of counselling sessions for married couples on safe sexual practices |
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28 of counselling sessions for unmarried men and men living apart from their families in selected villages |
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354 female students, teachers and principals from 10 senior secondary schools in Roopwas and Bayana blocks have been sensitised to HIV/AIDS and other RCH issues |
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Village-level taskforces for project governance have been formed |
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Linkages have been established with the Department of Integrated Child Development Services; Community Health Centres, Public Health Centres |
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Government functionaries, PRIs and local health care providers (e.g. CHC/PHC staff, AWWs) have been sensitised to HIV/AIDS and related issues |
