Engender Health: Capacity Building to support Adherence

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Engender Health India Society (EHS) in collaboration with The Indian

Network of Positives (HIV positive) and other partners is currently

implementing an innovative project to strengthen capacity of both

the public and private sectors to assist in adherence to HIV

Treatment (ART). EHS will improve and expand quality training

ensuring more effective referral linkages and follow –up.

The proposed capacity building program will address the urgent need

to improve the quality and accessibility of newly established care

and support services in 6 high prevalence states in India, and in so

doing, strengthen the foundation for the future introduction of HIV

care and treatment services across India. Over a period of five

years, the program aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an

institutional strengthening approach for building the capacity of

NGO sector providers in the private/NGO sector to provide quality

care and support services for people on ART in resource poor

settings.

Major Outputs include:

• 619 Trained service providers

• 124 master trainers

• 3 CETCs

• 3 training curricula (600 copies)

• 2 sets of job aids (1750 copies in 6 languages)

The CETCs will serve as a model training centres for consortium

efforts to train and support public, private and NGO sector

providers. The project is expected to result in substantially

increased access for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) to quality

ART support and care services in 6 high prevalence states.

The project goal is to increase the number of NGO sector providers

capable of delivering high quality care and support services in

accordance with the national treatment guidelines through improving

the capacity of existing Indian health care training institutions to

provide training and follow-up support to service providers in

quality care and support services for PLHAs on ARVs.

The objectives will contribute to the overall achievement of the

GFTAM project goals and expected outcomes from the consortium by

improving coverage of services for care and support in high

prevalence states and districts through an expanded cadre of master

trainers and trained health care providers, counselors and peer

educators.

EHS project will train approximately 319 NGO sector service

providers across the service delivery sites in the first two years

of the project. In addition, EHS will train staff of 100 community

based organisations to provide home and community based care during

the first two years of the project.

Engender Health India Society, working in partnership with a

consortium of partners, the NGO Consortium (Population Foundation of

India, the Indian Network of Positive People (INP plus),

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Freedom Foundation

(FF), will assist India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO),

State AIDS Control Societies (SACs) to develop and implement an

integrated program of training and institutional capacity

building.

Vijayabhaskar Reddy K.MD MPH

Training Manager

Engender Health Society

" Vijayabhaskar Reddy Kandula "

E-mail: <emailreddy@...>