Ahmednagar Response to the theme of the month

As a response to the theme of the month we want to share a brief about Mainstreaming with the Tribal Department - Tribal Residential School Head-Masters Training

Ahmednagar is covered in a Very High prevalence district in Maharashtra. The various parts in Ahmednagar district comes in a tribal area. To run the HIV/AIDS awareness in this area always a big task in front of DAPCU. Implementation of IEC sources in this area always put a big question mark due to illiteracy and language problem.

Ahmednagar DAPCU had organized one day workshop of Tribal residential school headmasters on 06/11/2012 at Rajur, Town Akole. The program was organized for creating awareness about HIV/AIDS. The participants were also told about the activities conducted by the DAPCU for the AIDS awareness. The aim of the program was to bring this highly educated part of the society in to mainstreaming. This workshop held under the guidance of Dr. Ravindra Niturkar (District Civil Surgeon). The DPO shri. Shivaji Jadhao, Network representative shri. Prashant yende, shri. Satish Bankar from TBs department had made a presentation and cleared the doubts of participants. This team mainly focused on the role of the head-masters in HIV/AIDS program. The participants discussed the issues very confidently.

The IEC material has distributed to the participants. Total 50 Headmasters from the Tribal residential school were present. Integrated Tribal project Officer Mr. Pichad and Project Coordinator Mr. Rathod were also present.