EHA

India with over 1.1 billion population has 2.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS. There are 83 districts out of the total 400 across the country that has high prevalence of HIV in the general population. According to the Technical Report of HIV Estimates done in 2007, the prevalence rates among the high risk groups(HRGs) are -  5% in female sex workers (FSWs), 7.2% in injecting drug users (IDUs) and 7.4% in men having sex with men (MSMS) and 3.7% in migrants. Today, HIV/AIDS is therefore one of the national major health problems that demand an appropriate response. NACP III (National AIDS Control Plan Phase III) starting from 2008 has the goal of halting and reversing the epidemic through high coverage of prevention, interventions and universal access of treatment, care and support to the infected and affected.

EHA today is one of the important players of HIV/AIDS response in India. Prevention and care are very much in the arena of the organization and as such no stone is left unturned to bring our own contribution to the fore. Let's summarize some of them

• Child friendly and youth friendly programs that promote positive attitudes and healthy lifestyles and skills among the vulnerable population. From adolescent health education to crowd pulling events such as Zest Idol or teenage Star contests or music and creative arts lessons to gymnastics, we go for what would have positive contribution in these young lives.
• Direct interventions to those most at risks of transmitting the virus – reaching out to where they are, who they are and what state they are in – with means that will render them and others safe, that would lead them to adopt safe lifestyles, that will  provide them opportunity to consider their own issues of life.
  Care is our forte. Home based care, critical care, follow up care, treatment education, care and support, counselling, testing, referrals, linkages – we are improving and up scaling our responses year after year.
  Training, capacity building, facilitating, transferring of knowledge, skills and practice, providing technical support and  hand-holding support we not only use these words but we engage in them in increasing measure.
• Research – we are not really at our best here even though we have done some over the past few years. The numbers of publications, peer review papers are still inadequate given the amount of data we have been generating across EHA-wide. Our aspiration is to increase our skills in these and share the experiences more widely.
• People building has been our priority and nation building is what we aspired to contribute to. Changing perspectives and creating motivation that will to serve, drawing inspirations from the timeless truth of the gospels, making an army of change makers.

Our current projects include

1. Adolescent health education and awareness creation in community health (CH) locations
2. A child-friendly project called SCHIFRILEC in Ukhrul Manipur
3. Living hope ministry in Churachandpur town in Manipur
4. SHALOM Project in Aizawl running IDU and SW Targeted Interventions (TI) with Mizoram State AIDS Control Society (SACS)
5. Spandana HIV/AIDS Project in Lakhnadon, Seoni district, MP
6. Herbertpur CH Project running an IDU project in Dehradun in Uttarkhand
7. Project ORCHID running 31 TIs (IDU, FSW and MSM) across 12 districts in Manipur and Nagaland
8. SHALOM Delhi running home based care (HBC) in association with churches in Delhi, critical care and training programs since 2001
9. GM Priya hospital running Community Care Centre for PLWAs
10. Duncan Hospital running Home based care programs in Raxaul in Bihar
11. NACO North East Regional Office (NERO) supporting the TI support unit
12. State Resource and Training Centre (STRC) for Manipur and Nagaland