XIMB offers course to combat AIDS

November 13, 2008

BS Reporter / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar November 14, 2008, 0:43 IST

In the first of its kind initiative by any management institute in

India, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) has started

a state training and resource centre (STRC) in partnership with

National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and Orissa State AIDS

Control Society (OSACS).

The STRC will work in partnership with NACO, OSACS and various other

NGOs and it will be jointly coordinated by S Peppin and MN Tripathi,

the faculty members of the institute. Training programmes will be

conducted so that the participants can act as trainers and

facilitators for targeted interventions amongst high risk groups. The

participants will be sourced from members of the partner

organisations.

The objective of the programmes to be offered by the STRC will be to

train the participants to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS with

the active participation of the target community. The programme will

also aim to help develop a sense of passion and a certain level of

commitment to the task at hand, amongst the participants.

The participants of these programmes would go on to become

consultants for implementation of targeted interventions amongst the

target groups like female sex workers, homosexuals, drug users,

migrant truckers and labourers.

In August 2007, XIMB had conducted the Leadership and Managerial

Proficiency programme, which was a certificate level course

attempting to build the personal and professional capacity of HIV

positive individuals.

This course also helped XIMB to play a major role in mainstreaming

HIV. The institute's faculty and their family members, students were

highly sensitised, along with 30 partner organisations which provided

field learning support to the participants the programme.

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