Re: ActionAid to create National Coalition on Children affected HIV/AIDS

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Dear AIDS INDIA,

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This is excellent and I would like to be part of this effort.

Please read our paper based on the study we did of how children are managing

their households This study is also based in AP.

Peaceful an Healthy new Year to all.

Vimla

--

Vimla V. Nadkarni, Ph.D.

Professor

Centre for Health and Mental Health

School of Social Work

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

V. N. Purav Marg

Sion-Trombay Road

Mumbai 400 088

Tel: 91-22-25525421

Fax: 91-22-25525050

Email: vimla@..., vimlanadkarni@...

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Dear Vimala, and All,

Happy New Year Greetings, and glad to re-connect through this e-mail.

This is to place on record sincere appreciation, and hearty congratulations to ActionAid for this GREAT Initiative.

We would like to be part of this Initiative, and through this e-mail, I am happy to inform that I am now based in Bangalore, as Senior Regional Representative for Asia-Pacific for the Catholic Medical Mission Board (www.cmmb.org).

As you might know, we have been involved globally, with children, and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

We look forward to workinbg with all of you,

Thanks and best,

Rabia

Rabia Mathai DrPH, MPH, MS, PhD

Senior Regional Representative Asia-Pacific

Catholic Medical Mission Board

Bangalore, India

rmathaicmmb (DOT) org

rabiamathai@...

(will provide contact details as soon as we are able to get office space in Bangalore).

[Guest guest]

Dear Prof. Vimala

First of all Whishing you a very happy New Year. We works in Bodoland

Territorial Council (BTC) Assam on the similar issues. Our organisation NEDAN

FOUNDATION would be happy to be part of this great initiative.

I would also request you to kindly do something on conflict related women mental

health issues in the areas we are working.

Kindly also convey my greetings to Prof. Mouleshri and Dr. Leema K. Hope to see

you soon.

Thanks

Digambar Narzary

NEDAN FOUNDATION

[Guest guest]

The number of children of all ages living with HIV keeps increasing and

no one asks the question where they got it from?

When it's MTCT, unless the child is well taken care of medically from

birth, the child dies very young. The fact that mother - father may have died

of AIDS is not sufficient to imply in-utero transmission.

Any child over the age of 5 living with HIV may well have been

contaminated through shared syringes. There is also evidence that

children infected during health care may transmit to parents through

shared needles.

Aimée Mwadi Kadi, president of Society for Women and AIDS in DR Congo

reported that in some displaced population one syringe was shared by

several families. We know of entire village in Tamil Nadu HIV+ because a

traditional practionner shared a syringe.

We also need to protect children against HIV, and to protect those

already living with HIV from contracting Drug Resistant HIV or Hepatitis B /C

(respectively 20 million and 2 million esstimated YEARLY cases though health

care injections - see WHO Viral Hepatitis report to last week's Executive board

meeting of the WHO).

Anyone worked on that?

Garance

e-mail: <g_upham@...>