Mapping of HIV/AIDS services in India; Request for Information about your services

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MAPPING OF HIV/AIDS SERVICES IN INDIA – 2003-04

For the data collection form and further details please contact Md. Gulrez

HIV/AIDS Services Mapping Project Coordinator directly: SAATHII Calcutta, CD

335, Sector I, Salt Lake City, Calcutta, Pin 700 064, Phone: 033 2334 7329

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Subject: Request for Information about Your HIV/AIDS Services

Dear Friend

According to the “HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2002” carried out by National AIDS

Control Organization (NACO), India has around 4.58 million HIV infected

people. If effective and timely measures are not undertaken, this figure will

grow to alarming levels and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country may well

become uncontrollable. In order to counter such a situation, many government,

voluntary, private and bilateral / multilateral agencies have initiated

HIV/AIDS programmes in various parts of India. Yet, for a long time a national

database to enable collaborations among these agencies towards enhancing

the impact of their programmes was not available.

In order to create such a database, SAATHII undertook an extensive mapping of

HIV/AIDS services in India in 2002-03, and in July 2003 published “SAATHII RED

RIBBON PAGES, 2003 Edition – A Directory of HIV/AIDS Services in India”.

This directory was a landmark accomplishment for both India and SAATHII. Along

with a similar directory brought out by NACO (also in 2003), it was one of the

first national HIV/AIDS services directories to be published. The directory

lists and indexes details of various HIV/AIDS preventive, care, support,

treatment and enabling environment services provided by nearly 1,200

implementing agencies (voluntary / government / private) and around 100 funding

agencies (government / private / bilateral / multilateral). It presents

information about the implementing agencies through state wise chapters and

district wise sub-chapters.

Its preparation and distribution was funded by The M. Lloyd Foundation, Los

Angeles, USA; UNAIDS India, New Delhi; and Global Strategies for HIV

Prevention, San , USA.

In 2003-04, SAATHII, along with its collaborating partners, Sahaya

International, , USA; Rural Education and Action Development (READ),

Andimadam, Tamil Nadu; ABK-AOTS DOSOKAI (Tamil Nadu Center), Chennai; Positive

Women Network of South India (PWN+), Chennai; and Naz Foundation (India) Trust,

New Delhi, proposes to publish the next edition of the directory.

The new edition will incorporate updated information on the agencies included in

the first edition as well as information about agencies that could not be

included in the first edition for various reasons. Emphasis will be laid on

improving the directory in terms of better coverage of the geographical regions

and HIV/AIDS sectors that were under-represented in the first edition.

We need your co-operation for this crucial project. We have enclosed a form and

request you to take a few minutes to fill it up with the necessary information.

You can send us the completed form by e-mail, fax or post (self-addressed

stamped envelope enclosed). We will appreciate it if you can also provide us

with the names and contact information of other agencies working on HIV/AIDS

issues that you are aware of.

Once the directory is complete, we will make sure that your agency receives a

copy of the directory. Apart from a print version, this directory will also have

an electronic version available on SAATHII’s website (www.saathii.org) with a

searchable database format.

Thank you in advance and looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely

Md. Gulrez

HIV/AIDS Services Mapping Project Coordinator

Address: SAATHII Calcutta, CD 335, Sector I, Salt Lake

City, Calcutta, Pin 700 064

Phone: 033 2334 7329, Fax: 044 2374 3575 (SAATHII Chennai)

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