Educations
adolescents and youth
Through the school intervention programme, GAP is helping in raising awareness of HIV/AIDS and sexual health among adolescents within and outside the
school system. Teachers are also being trained to carry out the sexual health
education programme with GAP.GAP raises awareness of HIV/AIDS and sexual health, the adolescents in
the community and urban slum areas and also for street children and prepares
peer educators in the community too. Parents and the community residents take tremendous
interest in such programmes.
Alternative
income generation system
GAP has set up an alternative income generation system of marginalized
groups and for PWHA and family members, this wing of GAP is known as Abhiprayas.
Networking
with other NGOs
GAP has an extensive networking service with local, national and international NGOs working on HIV/AIDS The Indian Network of NGOs (INN) working on HIV/AIDS is a national organization and was established in November 1994. The activities include annual conventions, training and capacity building, information dissemination through news bulletins,advocacy - lobbying, working on the rights of PWHA, networking with other
NGO forums working in different fields, research, documentation and protecting
the rights of the vulnerable groups.
Safer
blood supply to the community
GAP influences commercial blood donors to abandon this hazardous occupation and enter into alternative income generation systems. At the same time,
GAP is moving
a young, healthy generation to become voluntary blood donors.
Community
Mobilization
Urban to rural cruise or Safar (while one travels)This is an innovative
approach to reach the un reached and also access the rural population from the urban
centers. Outreach workers move about market place of the city and at traveling
centers and halt point, where through interpersonal communication and group meeting information dissemination on HIV/AIDS is being give. STD patients are
beingidentified through syndromic approach and counselled for availing treatment.
Unoranized
sectorz
Outreach work for Commercial Sex Workers and MSM : GAP is in constant
touch with outreach marginalized group like CSW and MSM through its network
of outreach social workers and respective peer educators.
Capacity
Building
GAP is working in 8 districts of Gujarat and has identified NGOs and is
helping them in their capacity building for talking up programmes on HIV/AIDS
at the district and taluka level. Training programmes for Teachers, Laboratory technicians, counsellors
and other NGO representatives.
Working
with prison inmates
Jail Intervention Project on Health and Quality Life Education: Prisons
in fact are not cut from the world outside. Most Prisoners leave prison at same point
to return to their community after a very short time inside. Some prisoners enter
and leave prisons many times. GAP has worked with 4250 inmates along with 300 staff
members of 19 jails in Gujarat This project has been an intersectoral
collaboration between GAP and the Government of Gujarat.
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