Helping HIV/AIDS patients with Care & Treatment

Summary

Focus on strengthening the capacities of 100 AIDS patients and their families by giving them medical help, counseling, skill training, livelihood opportunity, thereby restrict the spread of disease

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

We will be concentrating on 100 patients from the district or 100 families under this project. Care and treatment will be given to the families of AIDS patients. This is a 3 year project. As an outcome every year a well-developed manual based on practical experiences will come out. This will be useful for other NGOs working in this direction across the world. Beneficiaries will be AIDS patients from poor, single families. Priority will be given to patients from red light area and slum areas.

Activities

Checking and Identification of AIDS patients. 2) Family survey 3)Identification of family needs. 4)Formation of AIDS patients committee for monitoring. 5)Formation of Advisory committee comprising of doctors, social workers, lawyers, nutritionists

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

1) 100 HIV/AIDS patients have started gaining good health, Hb count and weight are increased. 2)The risk of spreading the disease by the AIDS patient due to negligence, hatred and jealocy towards the society will be minimized.

Project Message

Our organisation IRCED is working on migration
- Kiran Kulkarni, Secretary - IRCED, Ashoka Fellow

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Kiran Kulkarni,
Project Director
6, Nishant Apt.,
Nagraj Colony, Vishrambag,
SANGLI, Maharashtra State 416 415
India
0091 - 233 - 2302125
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Institute of Rural Credit & Entrepreneurship
IRCED, 6, Nishant Apt.,
Nagraj COlony, Vishrambag
SANGLI, 416 415
India
0091 - 233 - 2302125
http://www.irced.com

Learn more about Institute of Rural Credit & Entrepreneurship and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 28, 2004.