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Welcome
to Micro Care Trust! |
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Asia is in the path
of the global AIDS pandemic. With an estimated 8.3 million infected
in the region (including about 1.1. million newly infected in 2005),
the disease could prove devastating both socially and economically
if its spread is not quickly checked India is one of the largest and
most populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants.
Of this number, at least five million are currently living with HIV.
According to some estimates, India has a greater number of people
living with HIV than any other nation in the world.
HIV emerged later in India than it did in many other countries, but
this has not limited its impact. Infection rates soared throughout
the 1990s, and have increased further in recent years. The crisis
continues to deepen, as it becomes clearer that the epidemic is affecting
all sectors of Indian society, not just the groups – such as sex workers
and truck drivers – that it was originally associated with.
DATA-The Indian epidemic continues to be concentrated in populations
with high risk behavior characterized by unprotected paid sex, anal
sex, and injecting drug use with shared injecting equipment. Several
high risk groups have high HIV prevalence, and sexual networks are
wide and inter-digitating.
According to India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the
bulk of HIV infections in India occur during unprotected heterosexual
intercourse. Consequently, women account for a growing proportion
of people living with HIV (38% in 2005), especially in rural areas.
The low rate of multiple partner concurrent sexual relationships among
the wider community seem to have, so far, protected the larger body
of people with 99 percent of the adult Indian population being HIV
negative. With an epidemic of a chronic infection, India has discovered
the visible ‘face’ of the epidemic: that of a growing number of people
living with HIV and AIDS. |
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| Dipen
Prajapati Dr., |
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| To make a real difference,
Micro Care Trust focuses
on integrated responses to HIV/AIDS that combine preventing
HIV infection, facilitating access to treatment, care
and support, and lessening the impact of AIDS. We emphasise
the importance of working with people who are most likely
to affect or be affected by the spread of HIV/AIDS. These
are often people from marginalised groups and mostly truck
driveres who are the most vulnerable and the hardest to
reach. |
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| Working
At Africa, Ghnana. |
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| We have learned
that the most successful responses to HIV/AIDS and other
development challenges are built upon local leadership,
commitment and responsibility, and are supported by knowledge,
learning and resources from elsewhere. With our support,
local non-governmental and community-based organisations
are particularly well placed to facilitate community responses,
as well as to bridge effectively the needs and capacities
of poor people. |
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