Invitation: Listen to the Voices from the Community - 12th Nov. New Delhi

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum members

The CHAHA team is very happy to invite you all to an event where we would like

you to listen to “the voices of the community”.

This is an event to salute the courage of children, their families and care

givers in facing-up to the realities of living with HIV. The India HIV/AIDS

Alliance and its nine consortium partners implement CHAHA, a child-centered care

& support programme for families and communities, with support from Global Fund

Round 6 in four high prevalence states - Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and

Maharashtra.

It aims to increase access to services for children living with

HIV and for children living in families affected by HIV & AIDS.

Although successful and still undoubtedly needed, the programme will end in

March 2011.

In advance of this closure, we are organising a meeting on the

occasion of Children’s Day—Friday, 12th November between 11 and 1 p.m.—to listen

to children, caregivers and civil society representatives and to discuss the

urgent and ongoing needs to provide a continuum of care to children affected by

AIDS as a core element of India’s efforts to mitigate the impact of the

epidemic.

During the meeting, interactions between children and caregivers will

highlight the need to continue and scale up care & support programming for

children and families affected by AIDS.

We will share lessons from CHAHA to work towards a sustainable child-centered

care & support programme within the national programme.

Your participation at this event would be a great contribution to its

success. We hope that you will accept our invitation to participate in the

meeting and respond to the recommendations made by children, caretakers and

civil society representatives. The venue for the meeting is:

Regent Hall (Basement)

Hotel The Connaught

37, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg

Near Shivaji Stadium, Opp. Jain Temple

New Delhi – 110001

Ph. 011- 2336 4225

Friday, 12th November between 11 and 1 p.m

A line of confirmation to tdahiya@... will be greatly

appreciated.

Sonal Mehta

India HIV/AIDS Alliance

e-mail: <sonalmehtai@...>