Rural Gujarat and World AIDS Day Programme 2006

[Guest guest]

World AIDS Day 2006: Keep Promise. Stop AIDS.

Accountability " I am accountable to you, you are accountable to me and we all

are accountable to all and then only we can Stop AIDS " .

Rural Gujarat and World AIDS Day Programme 2006

Gujarat AIDS Awareness and Prevention Unit (GAP) is working in 20 villages of

Sabarkantha District for last 4 years. The theme of GAP's intervention programme

is Strengthening the local governance and mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS.

World AIDS Day campaign highlighted the accountability of the project work and

presented the summary of work done in these villages to its beneficiaries.

During the project period GAP reached to 10,000 men and 850 women of 15 -45

years age group. In each village peers have been trained and the total number of

trained persons in is 622 in 20 villages.

In an average there is one trained person in each village behind 70 villagers

who is able to disseminate information on HIV/AIDS.

Altogether 93 positive people have been contacted who availed the emotional and

social support from GAP. GAP also guided them to avail the ART from civil

hospital, Ahmedabad. Enable environment has been achieved in each village to

promote free distribution of condom manned by trained peer educators. The

condom pick up remained high indicting the risk perception and sexual

behavioural change. GAP presented this work report in each village highlighting

the value of accountability towards the beneficiaries and explained the

significance of World AIDS Day Programme.

20 meetings were attended by 2000 participants including panchayet members,

opinon leaders, school teachers, doctors, anganwadi workers, trained village

workers and beneficiaries in general. The programme continued for 10 days.

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