Report: National consultation: Ensuring equity in access to ART for marginalized groups living with HIV in India Nov 26, 2008

[Guest guest]

Report of INP+ National consultation: " Ensuring equity in access to ART for

marginalized groups living with HIV in India " Nov 26, 2008

Indian Network for People living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), with support from Family

Health International (FHI) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), organised

a national consultation titled " Ensuring equity in access to ART for

marginalized groups living with HIV " on November 26, 2008, at New Delhi.

During that consultation, relevant study reports and policy brief were shared

(listed below).

Recommendations were developed in consultation with various community

representatives and other key stakeholders to ensure equity in ART access for

marginalized groups in India. More details are available at:

http://www.inpplus.net/meetingsevents.html#National consultation meeting on ART

access & marginalized groups

Following reports are available at: http://www.inpplus.net/downloads.html

1. Policy brief: Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for

marginalized groups in India: policy and programmatic implications to ensure

equity.

2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Equity in antiretroviral treatment access

for marginalized groups in India.

3. Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for injecting drug users in

Chennai, India.

4. Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for men who have sex with

men (MSM) and transgender women in Chennai, India.

5. Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for female sex workers in

Chennai, India.

For more information contact:

Mr. Stanley ph

Indian Network for People Living with HIV and AIDS (INP+),

New No 41 (Old No 42/3), Second Main Road,

Kalaimagal Nagar, Ekkaduthangal, Chennai-600097, India.

Ph: + 91-44-22254670-74

Web: www.inpplus.net

E-mail: inpplus@..., inp@...

Thanks

K.K.Abraham

President, INP+

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