Davanagere DAPCU, Karnataka Response-September 2012 Theme:

1. Why is positive prevention important?

• To control & prevent new infections
• To reduce burden on family, community, health & economy of the country
• To reduce stigma, discrimination & protect health care providers
• Positive prevention important to mainstream HIV

2. Strategies for positive prevention at your dist level:

• Awareness to all, specially for high risk groups
• Sensitization programmes for Govt & Private bus operators, Railways staff, Hotel staff, Street vendors, Private/Public sector organizations
• Trainings to all line department stake holders, ZP, TP members.
• IECs, Media[print & electronic],Folk, IPC
• ARSH programmes at school & College level
• Integration with health system: NRHM for PPTCT, STI services & HIV/TB Collaborative activity.
• Counseling & prevention through ICTCs, ART, FICTCs, and PPP model ICTC, Mobile ICTCs, DLN, DIC, TI & CCC.
• Sharing of experiences by Positive speakers
• Short slide shows in public gathering: Railway platforms, bus-stand, waiting areas[Hospitals], Cinemas, Market places
• Discussing strategies/case studies adopted in other districts & states with District administrator 

3. Role of DAPCUs: 

• To monitor, supervise & ensure effective implementation of HIV/AIDS activity at district level for Positive prevention in coordination with Line Departments, NGOs, & District administration 

Lastly, positive prevention is very important to get to ZERO infections, reduce stigma discrimination instances to ZERO. 

DAPCU Blog Workshop- 21st and 22nd September

Read about the experiences of the 8 blog volunteers at  

Workshop for DAPCU Blog Team -Moderating DAPCU SPEAK

21^st and 22^nd September 2012

Hyderabad

It was a very challenging and exciting time at DNRT Office Hyderabad for the participants who have volunteered to train for the DAPCU Speak management on the 21st and 22nd September 2012

On the first day Dr Ganesh Oruganti , SHARE-India welcomed us and made us feel 'at home' far away from home. We are about to be entrusted with a great responsibilities of managing a National Blog on DAPCU activities. The audience is nation-wide and across the world. The beginnings of DAPCU Speak and the future scope was vividly painted for us to envisage what is expected of us all here in the training.

Madam Roshni took us through a discussion on our experience of blogs, social networking sites and DAPCU SPEAK and all of us were listening with our mouth wide open. It was so mesmerizing and informative.

We learned why DAPCU SPEAK is important and that for the first time a collective DAPCU team of 8 persons from all corner of the country will be managing the DAPCU BLOG. Mr Ranjeeth also walked us through a quiz to – this helped us consolidate our understanding of the blog.

Without going into specific details , we can say that all technical knowledge to manage the blog was taught to us all. Each participant was given hands on training for every activity that needs to be done. Finally demystified the blogging and using You-tube videos , photos using picassa , googledocs to enhance our DAPCU Blog.

Further in the first day, we also heard a very inspiring message from Dr Rajan on Skype video conferencing. He encouraged and motivated the team. To be sincere, responsible as the whole world would be viewing what is posted on the blog. And he also told us that as we go back to our home State/district we should disseminate whatever we have learnt with the DNRT.

Day two had us working on more technical aspects , we also managed to squeeze in a session on group calling through Skype , so that all of us can be in touch even though are so far away from each other. We also worked assigning roles and responsibilities for each and every team member , a strategy for rotation in two months.

Finally all 8 of us go back home, taking with us the good memories of the training; confident that we will be able to take DAPCU SPEAK to new frontiers, overcome new challenges and achieve all that was envisaged when DAPCU SPEAK was conceptualized and given birth and even more!

Jai Hind.

DAPCU BLOG TEAM


Particulars of Blog Team Members  

    
     Sl    Name                                       Designation                              State/contact Nos

1. Dr Thangpa Serto                  DACO                                         Manipur/09612153224
2. Mr. Mhd. Amanuallah          DPM                                          North Delhi/9990000786
3. Dr Janaikar                            DPM                                          Akola/9370865966
4. Ms KN Baby                           DIS                                             Kodagu/9414474172
5. Dr Manu Modi                        DIS                                             Udaipur/9414474172
6. Mr Balajee Pindi                   DPM                                           Vizianagaram/9177103223
7. Mr Samson Idahosa             DPM                                          Adilabad/8008555980 
8. Mr Ganeswar Panda              DPM                                          Balangir/0937111280 

 

These members will be in touch with DAPCUs around the country and help them in using the blog and posting about their work on it. Please welcome them.

To read a detailed report click here

Kamrup DAPCUs Response to September Theme:

POSITIVE PREVENTION

Q.1 Why is positive prevention important?

• Positive prevention is Interventions designed to keep people living with HIV (PLHIV) physically and mentally healthy and to prevent HIV transmission to other people and increase the involvement of HIV +ve individual in prevention activities.

• Positive prevention is important because HIV prevention needs to reach both people who are at risk of HIV infection and those who are already infected.

• People who do not have HIV need interventions that will enable them to protect themselves from becoming infected.
• People who are already living with HIV need knowledge and support to protect their own health and to ensure that they do not transmit the virus to others.

Q.2. What are the strategies for positive prevention underway in your district?

• The following strategies for positive prevention underway in my district are highlighted.

• Partner counseling and testing of the PLHIV- The counselors of ICTCs and TI NGOs are directed to do the partner counseling on a regular basis.
• The HIV +ve pregnant women are called to ICTC every month for counseling on the following matters.

1. Institutional Deliveries.
2. Counseling on nutrition.
3. Safe sex.
4. Breast feeding.

• Moreover now ORWs have been newly appointed where main work is to follow up the HIV positive pregnant women and to bring them to ICTCs regularly. They also do outreach activities in remote areas and motivate pregnant clients to come to ICTCs for HIV screening.
• Community event programmes are regularly organized by the TI NGOs where the PEs along with the clients are invited. In these programmes importance is given to behavioural change among the HRGs.
• Making the mass Aware of HIV/AIDS: For positive prevention it is very necessary to make the general mass aware of the disease. To reach the mass it is the best policy to target the children. For positive prevention awareness of the school children has been started in my district.

Q.3. What role does the DAPCU play in this regard?

• DAPCU has been playing a vital role for positive prevention in the district. The following can be quoted for example:

• For prevention of infection from mother to child transmission the counsellor has to submit the line list of positive pregnant women to DAPCU (along with Assam SACS) from where the details of follow up can be monitored. If proper follow up is not done DAPCU can request the ORWs of the CCC to follow up the cases.
• DAPCU has started attending the weekly meetings of the newly appointed ORWs (under IL&FS). In these meetings the ORWs are advised to motivate the adolescent girls (for STI/ HIV screening) and newly married couples to bring to the ICTCs.
• DAPCU attends the VHND programmes along with the ICTC counsellor and ANM where the pregnant client and their spouses are made aware of HIV – its transmission, importance of HIV screening. Information regarding STI and STI/HIV interrelation is also shared in such programmes.
• The counselors have to submit an outreach report to DAPCU every month where the details are provided regarding their outreach activity with the following data-

1. No. of participants.
2. Topics of discussion.

• DAPCU Staff are also invited by TI NGOs in their Community event programme.
• Dapcu has taken steps to make childeren aware by undertaking awareness campaigns in different schools of the district.

Photos of Awareness Campaigns

Imphal East DAPCUs Response-September 2012 Theme:

POSITIVE PREVENTION

1. Why is positive prevention important?
    The nation wide programme on HIV/AIDS is being done with the objective to halt and reverse the  HIV/AIDS epidemic. So, this is important to prevent new positive cases.
2. What are the strategies for positive prevention underway in our districts? 
The strategies for effective positive prevention programmes underway are as follows:

1.  Behaviour change programme through TI Programmes.
2.  Control of sexual transmitted infection through STI clinics. 
3.  Integrated  counselling and testing   of HIV/AIDS through ICTC centres.
4.  Harm reduction programme for Injecting Drug Users.
5.  Blood safety awareness.
6.  Mid Media campaign and comprehensive awareness through mobile counselling and testing programme.

3. What role does the DAPCU play in this regard?
The role of DAPCU in this regard with respect to our district are;

1.  Coordination with the  facilities like ICTCs,TIs,LWSs,ART, DSRC etc. and convergence of programme with NRHM.
2.  Finding the gaps and bridging the gaps so as to make it stabilize. 
3. Linking of PLHIVs with the social benefits and welfare schemes.
4. racking the high risk zone through the spatial mapping.

Bangalore Urban DAPCU's Response - June 2012 Theme - Social Benefit Schemes for PLHIV and HRG

Schemes available in the district and DLN achievement 

Anna Anthyodaya Scheme	42
Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme	55
Loan Facility	-
Education Support for OVC	177
Orphan and Vulnerable children	-
Arogya Sree	-
Yeshaswini	-
Scholarship for Children	-
Sewing machine	-
Amrutha Scheme	-
Arogaya Bima Yojane / Health insurance	84
Health Insurance	84
Nutrition Supplement	1100
Others	6 sewing machines

Support of DAPCU/Dist Administration for getting these schemes Implemented

1. Referring the beneficiaries to the concerned departments
2. Advocacy and sensitize to the officials when beneficiaries visit them
3. Circular to be issued to the concerned departments for maintaining the   confidentiality
4. Priority should be given to the community while scrutinizing the beneficiaries

Role of DIC,DLN,LC,ART,ICTC

1. Identification of beneficiaries in the community
2. Referral to the concerned DIC,DLN,ART,ICTC
3. Providing proper guidance and awareness
4. Assistance for getting proper documents from concerned department

Challenges

1. No active participation from the beneficiaries due to confidentiality issue
2. Priority not given to the community people while scrutinizing Applications from the concerned departments
3. No awareness about the schemes available  
4. Difficulties in getting all the supportive documents for availing the schemes
5. No proper response and guidance from the departments for the beneficiaries