| Name of the Project |
Police sensitization programme |
| Project Area |
Hindupur |
| Held on |
2-12-2006 |
| Members present at the programme |
- Sub Inspector.
- ASI
- Police personnel
- Jail Supdt.
- ORWs
- Peer Educators
- PD, PC & Chaitanya Staff
- Doctor Diwakar TB unit- Hindupur
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| Source of funding / Supported by |
AP alliance project |
| Target group |
Police personnel |
| Goal |
Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS |
| Objectives |
- Reducing the No of HIV/STI patients.
- Educate the people about HIV/AIDS
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| Strategy |
- Arrange the counselling for the police personnel
- Educating on safe sex methods and practices.
- demonstrated the use of condom and informed the benefits of use of condoms. In this connection Police personnel were advised to use condom without fail
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| Main Activities |
- referring serious HIV positive patents to under go treatment and also providing TA & DA charges to such HIV affected people and their families.
- The staff of the Chaitanya NGO is also helping poor HIV affected people financially if necessary and also participate in the funeral ceremony of AIDS patients who are dead.
- Blood samples are collected for examination.
- New police recruits were specially told to adopt safe sex method and avoid free sex with FSWs.
- Police personnel were also informed to educate their family members on this subject.
- Cooperation was sought from police department for our organization as well as Key population for better understanding between us to carry out the Avahan programme successfully.
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| Results/ No of beneficieres |
- sensitization programme was a greate success and police Department confirmed to us that they will follow all the safe sex methods required to prevent STI and control of AIDS
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