UNDP India commemorates World AIDS Day/Global Red Ribbon Awards

[Guest guest]

Dear

friends,

On the 20th anniversary of the

World AIDS Day on 1 December, UNDP is organizing hosting a special award

ceremony for the Global Red Ribbon Awards and

a film screening at the Stein Auditorium, Habitat World at 6:30 pm.

Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, Sanghamitra, and People like

Us (PLUS) will be felicitated for their work with the Global Red Ribbon award

by the UNDP Resident Representative Maxine Olson. The Red Ribbon Award is a joint award by the

UNAIDS family and the International AIDS Conference to honour outstanding

community initiatives that show leadership to reduce the spread and impact of

HIV and AIDS. Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, Sanghamitra, and People like Us

(PLUS) are community based organizations that work with injecting drug users,

sex workers and transgender respectively.

Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust

operates from seven permanent sites to prevent and treat HIV and other

opportunistic infections affecting injecting drug users. A team of

outreach workers and peer educators, who are former or current drug users,

reaches out to the community on the streets of Mumbai.

Sanghamitra, a

women’s collective in Girgaum, Mumbai, is giving voice to the needs

of sex workers. The organization encourages sex workers to confront issues

of concern head-on so that they can confidently articulate their needs

without fearing reprisal from brothel-owners or the police.

People Like Us (PLUS), a

community-based organization of transgender youth dancers, runs programmes

aimed at providing care and support to transgender people, men who have

sex with men, and sex workers. In the PLUS walk-in shelter, transgender

people in need can access health care, education on the prevention of HIV

and other sexually transmitted infections, financial support, and

counseling.

The felicitation ceremony will be

followed by the screening of 68 pages (Hindi

with EST, 93 min), which is a story of five people whose lives

dramatically change when they come to know of their HIV status. The film has

been produced by the Humsafar Trust. The Director, Sridhar Rangayan, will

interact with the audience after the screening of the film.

Do come and join us at the India Habitat Centre on 1st

December.

Regards,

Sidhu

Research

and Communications Associate

UNDP India

55 Lodi Estate

New

Delhi-110003

Phone:

011-46532270/ 9818717522

sabrina.sidhu@.../ www.undp.org.in