Project Title

An Integrated Approach Towards Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission (PPTCT) of HIV Through Safe Motherhood Initiatives

Funding Agency

Duration of the project

Australian High Commission

March 2003 - May 2007

Geographical Coverage

Partner NGOs

Delhi, Solan and Hamirpur

• Hope Charitable Trust, Delhi

• SNS Foundation, Solan (H.P.)

• Lok Vikas Mandal, Hamirpur (HP)

Objectives

• Strengthen field level institutions, build organisational capacity towards Integrated Safe Motherhood & PMTCT

• Understand & document dynamics & implications of this integration in two different settings

• Assess cost effectiveness & sustainability of such an integration

• Develop an intervention model & an integrated approach to safe motherhood towards reducing MTCT by primary, secondary & tertiary prevention

Project Brief

During the ten months of intervention Phase, focus has been upon capacity building of partner NGOs on specific issues of Community Mobilization, Counselling, Safe Motherhood, HIV/AIDS and PMTCT. We are the lead partner and are providing technical support to the partner NGOs and are also enhancing their capacity, skills and knowledge by holding training workshop and facilitating district level advocacy work.

We have undertaken a Need Assessment study focusing on the concerned issues in all three areas. The community mobilisation and sensitisation activities on the issue of safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS, VCT and PMTCT by the partner NGOs in the selected project areas are moving forward as per the plans.

The implementing NGOs are providing counselling services in the antenatal clinics (either their own clinics or in the Public Health Service Delivery System) Pregnant women visiting antenatal clinics serve as an entry point for preventing MTCT at primary level. Partner NGOs are providing primary health care to the clients and whenever necessary referrals are made to the government institutions.