Re: NACO's Mission and Vission Statement (Only to decorate the NACO website?)

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Reply- Response on NACO envisions an India in which every person living with HIV

is treated with Dignity and has access to quality CARE.

Please Madam DG, stop once and think over whether it is RIGHT or WRONG!?

The situation in regards to the Manipur SACS issues under NACO is horrible for

more than a one decade in Manipur.

The concerns raised by your kind good self is a very valid issues that needs

serious brainstorming among the stake holder and this clearly portray the true

scenario of everything that happening in Manipur and in our country in general.

It is good that you raised the issues very boldly as it needs immense

courage and strange to be very blunt in putting across the faces and truth.

Well, it is not that people working in this filed are not ignorance but the

timidity to speck out the truth involves something that's got to do with more of

their carriers and backlash.

This might be the reason why people adopted 'Look not evil', 'see no evil' and

'hear no evil'. The only thing that is of concern for activist is their carrier

which might effect them if they are to expose such discrepancies & corrupted

SCAM and as such cause inhibition and courage to speck out the truth boldly.

Regarding the RTI act, it is true that there only a few who can be very vocal

and we requires few kind good self like yours, no matter the consequences who

have no fear in exposing such scams.

It is pertinent to note that the problems encounter by the Delhi SACS is more or

less on the same line with Manipur situation as well! And

handpicking a few yes man from their peers, near and dear ones won't help

addressing issues of drug use (substance use) & HIV/AIDS related issues.

Specking a few encouraging words and dong another things runs contradict the

principles of GIPA.

Why do the NACO /SACS have to endorse this beautiful principles of they could

not implement or sustain in a true sprit.

Of course, there are many examples that can be cited regarding the discrepancies

as is evident with the recent e-mail forwarded to Doctor Ashok gender,

Director AVAHAN.

But is the said authority or Dr. Ashok gender serious enough to look in to

the matter or is the said Dr. gender hand in hand with the EHA/ORCHID.

Other examples could be the concerns raised by Tomba Meitei regarding

NACO Northeast IDU consultant post. Tomba Meitei could be harnessing a sort of

grievances against NACO, but what about those valid issues he raised?

Why did NACO incurred expenses in calling for IDU consultant interview if they

are too maneuvered some near dear one to the said post. It will be encouraging

if NACO select the already in mind persons to the said post without notification

or earlier advertisement call so that the expenses incurred in

calling for interview is utilize for a few needy PLHAs who come to the DIC for

care and support program just for Rupees. 200 only.

It is a sad thing we are openly talking about discrimination and stigma issues

and ways to eliminate it. But it will be more rationale and cost saving if it

will first of all address issues of Stigma and discrimination among all the

people working to enhance the public health and even among the stake holder

i.e., NACO/SACS officials in the country.

This will go a long way in positively utilizing a negligible percentage of funds

allocated for fighting the epidemics.

In the mean time, let's put the GIPA principles and grater & meaningful

involvement of drug users in the NACO/SACS dust bin before any radical change is

visible. Following are the few points for every body need to be discuss:-

1. Manipur SACS claim that HIV prevalence among IDUs has been come

down from 90% to 24% in the year 2007. But being a ex-drug user working in the

issues for the last 18th year in Manipur we are wondering how come it will be as

all the IDUs TI project money sanction 3 or 6 month in a installment basis and

how can a Harm Reduction program can function in a systematic way specially

Needle Syringe exchange & condom promotion program.

Beside, within is 10 years of IDUs intervention in Manipur till today there is

no monitoring or evaluation has not been conducted.

2. There are more 48 TI IDUs partners in order to target approx.

20,000 drug users in the state but hardly there is any drug user's or PLHAS

organization as an partnership with SACS.

3. SACS has become a PWD department in Manipur any agencies specially

all the pressure groups and relative of SACS officials and MLAs it is an tender

process, they will do the work not by the NGO working in the field.

These agencies were force to demand money activities like HIV/AIDS awareness

developing IEC materials. But within is 10 years we did not come across any

relevant materials which can address the needs!

4. Recently as the NACP III started all the vacant post has field up

by the relative of existing staffs and MALS without having proper

advertisement in the state but forget about PLHAs or drug user communities

looking in the GIPA concept.

5. When we talk about OI medicine for PLHAs, we will get outdated

medicine which is made of unrecognized pharmaceutical Ltd in Manipur 'coz is a

tender system.

6. Being we are drug use living with HIV and HCV we all are fed up

what is happening in the state and country – it will be more appropriate if

these entire funds could come directly either to the NGO which is run by drug

user or PLHAs groups or given directly to the infected person through direct

cheque/draft. As all this AIDS fund has been use in a percentage system 10% 15%

by the existing government MLAs and the SECOUND GOVERNMENT and you might have

aware how many second govt. we have in Manipur more than 24.

7. Being from the PLHAs community we are also fed up these donor

agencies namely Global fund & Clinton foundation by covering 6 district in

Manipur where they could not able to address any need of the PLHAs including

children as they are covering 15% support system for 100 target PLHAs on the

other hand NACO did not allow to come any other International donor agencies as

they are here. So we really don't want these two agencies to stay in Manipur as

they could not address anything all the needs of PLHAs issues it seems they are

doing research without addressing the needs of the community

people.

Finally, I would love to know is NACO and SACS body is all about MBBS or medical

professionals and where is GIPA and when will be implemented?

In Solidarity,

Tomba

Activist, Manipur

e-mail: <tombameitei@...>

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Dear FORUM,

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We really appreciate all of your quick reply and opinions. We are collecting all

possible evidence from different state and will put PIL aganist all who are

citing country and its people.

We hope all of you will help us to fight for cause. Soon we will publish entire

survey, interaction in detail.

Earlier posting was just a jist of many unsaid / unheard issue.

Whoever is in the field of HIV/AIDS they are aware but lacking activism in

field.

In Solidarity

SGAC , India

Student Global AIDS Campign, India

www.fightglobalaids.org