Orissa: Red Ribbon Award 2008 for exceptional contribution

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Red Ribbon Award 2008

 

For the FIRST TIME, Orissa State AIDS Control Society and ActionAid Orissa

felicitated the following persons and sectors for their exceptional contribution

to HIV prevention and control efforts in Orissa on the occasion of World AIDS

Day at Ravindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar as part of mainstreaming initiative.

 

1. Government Sector: Director, Social Welfare, Department of Women and Child

Development, Govt. of Orissa for initiating the inclusion of HIV positive

persons in the Madhubabu Pension Yojana, the first ever state-wide social

security cover for Persons Living with HIV in the country.

2. NGO Sector: Indian Red Cross Society, Orissa Branch, for partnering with

OSACS in order to bear travel cost reimbursements of Persons Living with HIV to

and from Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centres.

3. Corporate Sector: Ballarpur Industries Limited- Unit Sewa for setting up the

first Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centre in the state under Public-Private

Partnership, at District Headquarter Hospital , Koraput.

4. Activism:

a. Ms. Namita Nanda, President, Shraddha Network for positive women, for

establishing the first womens’ network in the state and working for women's

rights, especially that of HIV positive women. The network is one year old on

1st of December 2008.

b. Mr. Neeraj Mishra for taking leadership in promotion of positive networks and

enabling greater linkages between Persons Living with HIV/AIDS and services

provided for them, both inside and outside the state, and for promoting the

principles of GIPA.

5.  Media: Mr Hrushikesh Mohanty, Correspondent, Times of India for consistent

and positive media coverage on HIV/AIDS and for generating greater awareness on

HIV in one of the highest prevalence districts of the state.

 

In Solidarity

 

Sashikanta

 

Shashikanta Mallick

e-mail: <shashikanta.Mallick@...>