Elton AIDS foundation to fund AIDS project in Manipur

April 9, 2004

Source: Atom Samarendra

Imphal, April 08: London based Elton AIDS foundation has agreed to fund

Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+) for taking up a project entitled

" Support for HIV intervention of a community based organization " in Manipur.

MNP+ secretary L Deepak told The e-pao.net that the objective of the project are

to facilitate community efforts to build support group and strengthen existing

networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Manipur.

It also aimed to provide home visits by a team of doctor and nurses and

counselor to offer medical advice and treatment to the PLWA. Despite educating

families about home-based care methods the project will also facilitate the

provision of livelihood support to female whose husbands were died of AIDS. The

project will also cover abandoned AIDS orphan by providing temporary faster home

care, Deepak said.

The Elton AIDS Foundation will fund the project at the tune of Rs 14 lakh.

The amount will be sanctioned in two installments. The one-year project is being

launched this month, Deepak said. The fund is being sanctioned through Action

Aid India headquartered at London. The grant was pursued through Action Aid

India's Guwahati regional centre. The target groups of the pilot project are

PLWA, commercial sex workers, widow and orphan. Under the project MNP+ will

engaged a doctor, staff nurse, accountant, driver and counselor. MNP+ was

formed on September 7, 1997, by five ex-injecting drug users, who were living

with HIV. It is a self-support group, which intends to overcome the constraints

and limitations faced PLWHA for overall improvement in their lives in particular

and society in general. The group has now more than 200 PLWHA as members.

It can be mentioned here that by the end of February this year Manipur has

around 17,000 HIV positive people.

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