Present Projects
CRISIS INTERVENTION
Project Period: One year
About Project:The purpose of this project is to provide counselling, rehabilitation, medical, and legal aid services to community members who are facing stigma and discrimination from the general population. Crises management is helping the community work safely and lead a quality life.
Activities of the Project:
Identify the crises: Conduct meetings with support groups at the hotspot level to learn and map the issues of key populations, collect information about the reasons, and develop action plans to resolve the crises.
- Counselling: Provide counselling to the community members who need counselling support.
- Rehabilitation: Provide temporary rehabilitation to those who are victimized by the crises.
- Legal Aid: Provide legal services to those who are victimized by the crises, if it is needed.
- Medical Support: Provide medical support in case of physical injury.
Project Reach Out:
By April 2023, the project was able to address 106 crisis situations.
TARGETED INTERVENTION FOR MSM
Project Period: One year
About the Project: The overarching goal of this initiative is to map High-Risk Groups (HRGs) to design and implement appropriate and effective interventions.
Activities of the Project:
Behaviour Change Communication:
Creating awareness about risk and vulnerability, prevention methods, availability and location of services, increase in safe behavior and demand for services as well as help to reduce stigma. Identifying the Key populations through one-to-one and one-to-group sessions is important for behavior change. Our outreach workers use programme-related Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials such as brochures, booklets, pamphlets, and community cards to mobilize key populations on practicing safe sex, Prevention and Care and Support related services, referral services, Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Tuberculosis.
Condom Promotion
Under this programme, the promotion of condoms is one of the important components to promote safe sex practices and the prevention of HIV. We are providing condoms through different channels including social marketing. Our community workers and peer educators explain the process of condom usage by demonstration. We review the demand for condoms and develop distribution channels for the community quarterly.
Management of STI/RTI:
Sexually transmitted Infections are one of the reasons for transmission of HIV. At our center we organize medical camps to provide treatment, counselling, and referral services related to STIs for our community/clients.
Referrals & linkages:
According to the treatment protocol and mandate of the HIV prevention programme, we refer all our cases to government health centres for testing and facilitating treatment. We also do follow up with our clients for further treatment and counselling.
Enabling Environment:
We conduct advocacy meetings with different stakeholders and like-minded organizations, individuals, legal volunteers, auto drivers, and allied populations to develop rapport and create an enabling environment for the community.
Project Reach Out:
- Initially, the project started with 1,000 MSMs and now it has reached 1,619 MSMs who are registered with the INFOCEM Targeted Intervention project.