AEGiS-09IAC: Net work among NGOs.

9th International AIDS Conference


Berlin, Germany — June 6-11, 1993

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Net work among NGOs.

Int Conf AIDS 1993 Jun 6-11; 9:117 (abstract no. WS-D14-6)
Dhanammal G, Nataraj S; South India AIDS Action Programme, Madras.

INTRODUCTION: NGOs already working in the field of community health work in Tamil Nadu offer a parallel support system to their respective communities. Our aim was to reach out to the general public especially in rural areas and to create an awareness about HIV/AIDS. STRATEGY: Instead of NGOs being established to handle new epidemics. We decided to incorporate sex/STD/HIV education into the pre-existing community health programme. For this we trained the NGOs' workers/staff through on the spot workshops on sex education/STD/HIV awareness and prevention. We used traditional methods to spread the message. This gave us access to a larger segment of the population. RESULT: By adopting this method, we have been able to develop a network of more than 75 NGOs.

Keywords: AEGIS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV, HIV-2, HIV-1, HIV Antibodies, ICA9KWDaegis,sexuallytransmitteddiseases,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,hiv,hiv-2,hiv-1,hivantibodies,ica9
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