NACO stops funding for 438 NGOs for poor anti-AIDS performance

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NACO stops funding for 438 NGOs for poor anti-AIDS performance

14 Mar, 2008, 2131 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: National AIDS Control Organisation has discontinued

funding for as many as 438 NGOs after their performance in AIDS

prevention programme was not found to be satisfactory.

In all, 1,220 NGOs were involved in programmes targeting high risk

groups like sex workers and drug users, of which the association with

262 was discontinued, Union Health Minister A Ramadoss told Rajya

Sabha in a written reply on Friday.

Subsequently, he said, an independent evaluation of the remaining 958

NGOs was conducted between April and June, 2007.

Of these, the performance of 176 NGOs was found to be unsatisfactory

and the funding to these organisations was discontinued.

The functioning of 122 community care centres was also assessed and

48 of these were found to be unsatisfactory, Ramadoss said.

He added these NGOs did not have adequate infrastructure and trained

manpower as per requirements.

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