Information sharing about short stay home in Bihar

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Dear Forum

We are pleased to share with you all that BNP+ has initiated to offer SHORT STAY

HOME last month for the reliefe of the people living with HIV and seeking

medication & treatment at the ART center in patna.

The people living with HIV come from different rural areas and face several

problems of accomodation and proper treatment. They face discrimination as well,

during the treament. The SHORT STAY HOME aims to eliminate such problem of the

people living with HIV.

The out reach worker accompainies the PLHs to proper treatment in the hospital.

Moreover these people are also counsseled regularly to provide

emotional/spritual help during one month of service delivery.

We felt that those coming with severe opportunistic infection needed proper care

in nursing. Since the SHORT STAY HOME provided accomodation and counseling

support. The poor and needy people living with HIV are also provided some

financial support by way of travel fare, treatment and testing cost, medicinal

cost, fooding etc.

We felt soory not to cater to their immidiate needs of nursing but we have

innitiated talks with few Doctors to render free services to the extremely poor

PLHs having severe of opportunistic infection.

Majority of the people come to the hospital when they are severely affected by

opportunistic inffection, there for inspite of having the SHORT STAY HOME, the

nursing care urgetly recuired for their is deprived due to our limitation. We

are also doing advocacy for community participation where rich and renowned

people, individual service provider, clubs etc. are being vaunted with our

services and their contrbution to the needy poor people living with HIV is

requested.

We are also pleased to share that BNP+ was awarded for the tremendous

contribution in creating awareness and service delivery to people living with

HIVs, and advocacy for them. The award was given by Hon'ble Transport Minister,

Government of Bihar, Mr. Ajit Kumar in programe of organized by SRIJAN NETWORK,

Bihar.

We requisted him to avail free Bus passes to people living with HIVs. He has

assured us to impliment the request as early as possible. This would help the

rural people living with HIVs in accessing treatment as the amount spent on bus

fare iot will be save and which can be spend on nutritional and other needs.

We also acquainted him with the importance of second line drugs and hour

urgently.It is needed for the doors of death. Within the network we have forty

members people living with HIVs are awaiting for second line drugs.

We are trying to give the best of our services with in our resources, but with

additional infrastructure and resource services can be improved immensely.

Thanks for all.

Rajneesh Singh

President

Bihar Network For People Living With HIV/AIDS Society (BNP+)

Shastri nagar, Gulabbagh, Purnea - 854326, Bihar, India.

Patna Office-

L.B. Palace, 4th floor, Near Uma Cinema

Kadam Kuan, Patna - 4

SHORT STAY HOME -

Shaidpur Road, Patna

E.mail - bnp_resu@...

rajneeshresu@...