Re: Mumbai: Symposium on COMPREHENSIVE HIV MANAGEMENT

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr.I.S.Gilada,

Greetings from Anbu Illam Charitable Trust (AICT), a community

based organisation sero-positive individuals, initiated under the

guidance of an organisation called Community Action Network (CAN)

in the year 1996, working for positive women and children at

Nammakal for the past 5 years and also for MSM for the past 1 year

manned by staff well experienced in the field and Mr. Sekar the

first Gay man in India to declare his seropositive status, has

been running a drop-in centre for MSM in general , for the past 1

year.

Anbu Illam has the required facilities in its

drop-in-centre and raise funds through its own sources. However,

its experiences have brought out the fact that there is a need to

focus exclusive attention to positive MSM, whose needs are

otherwise different and complex in nature.

The phase of HIV intervention in Tamil Nadu has now stepped up its

measures into care component after years of prevention

interventions promoting high level of awareness among the

population. Care component has got the precedence also because of

increasing reported persons with sero-positives over the years.

However, the care interventions programmes need on the part of

NGOs/CBOs prior experiences and access to positive persons. It

also requires NGOs/CBOs to have existing infrastructure at a

significant level.

In this regard we request you to kindly send us details of the

discussions during the meeting to be held there on the 24th of

January.

Thanking You,

Yours Sincerely,

B.Sekar

Founder/Director.

E-mail: sekar_swam@...