Guest guest Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 A letter sent by Kalinga Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS, Bhubaneswar to the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Orissa. Dear Hon'ble Chief Minister, Orissa State AIDS Control Society has successfully managed in breaking up the Kalinga Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. It has created two factions amongst the KNP+ and has been successful in closing down the only accessible Drop in Centre supported and managed by the Kalinga Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. It has even gone to the extent of exhorting one of the PLHA member to file a criminal case against the other. The reason: KNP+ had been successful in bringing to the notice of the legislators and the then Health Minister about the non involvement of PLHAs in HIV/AIDS Programme in Orissa. The Orissa State AIDS Control Society has been managed by Project Directors who have not empathized with People Living with HIV/AIDS and each time a new Project Director comes he focuses not on People living with HIV/AIDS and problems and issues concerned with them but with not doing anything to alleviate the problems and issues of concern of People living with HIV/AIDS. Mr. Parmeshwar Swain, the current Project Director is no different, he in a meeting with the legislators on the occasion of World AIDS Day exhorted all the PLHAs to go on ART and save themselves. And even went to the extent of saying that that is the only way a PLHA can save himself/herself. Orissa State AIDS Control Society has always been famous for its short sightedness and has always believed that HIV/AIDS programme is not to support the PLHA network or work for stigma and discrimination but to support influential people's children who can be a part of the HIV/AIDS programme by either working out there or implementing a Targeted Intervention Programme. What should the State Government do or NACO do? Are the PLHA issues so small that NACO or State Government does not need to interfere in this? I request the Chief Minister of Orissa to look for answers or request Orissa State AIDS Control Society, and National AIDS Control Society to kill us so that we don't come to expect anything from them and nothing is done for us. Thanking you, Yours Sincerely Sukant Sahoo, General Secretary, Kalinga Network of Positive People. e-mail: <knpplusorissa@...> CC: Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Orissa. Ms. Sujatha Rao, Director General, National AIDS Control Organization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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