Vivek AnandChief ExecutiveThe Humsafar TrustMumbai,India

Beginning

1990 : Started as a magazine ‘Bombay Dost’

1994: Registered as a CBO in 1994

Strategic decision to work with Public Health Care Providers

Strategic decision to work with the local and national government.

1999: Country’s Pilot Project with MSM & TG

Now

Over 225 staff – 95% from MSM and TG community

Diverse range of programs, some for specific sub-populations, some integrated

Centre for Excellence :

Independent research unit that helps shape our ongoing practice

Advocacy unit to mainstream MSM and Tg issues

Capacity Building of MSM and TG CBOs

Innovative approaches to partnership between MSM/TG CBOs and clinical services – The Humsafar Model.

 

~ Community Mobilisation

~ Street Outreach and Condom Distribution

~STI Service and HIV Testing Facility

~ Care, Support and Treatment

~ IEC Development and Distribution

~ Advocacy and Networking

~ Research and Training

~ Project Management

Humsafar MSD Package

~ 10 Drop-in-centers

~ Library and Archives

~ Help-line (Telephone and E-Mail)

~ Community Workshops

~ Skills Building Programs

Community Mobilization

Outreach education on safer sex practices and increasing awareness on STIs among MSM and Tg and HIV and AIDS

Street Outreach

HST offers increased accessibility to high quality STI examination / treatment, HIV testing facilities

HST links with Private Medical Practioners (PMPs) around hotspots to provide STI care and referrals for HIV testing

STI and HIV Services

HST also provides general examination of routine illnesses to the MSM / TG Community at the HST Clinics

HST counselors provide pretest and post test counselling to MSM and TG clients at HST clinics and its other referral linkages

STI and HIV Services

Partner Notification

HST encourages partner HST encourages partner notification to MSM-PLWHA notification to MSM-PLWHA

under its partner notification under its partner notification programprogram

3 In house clinics and strategic linkages with public Health care providers for care, support and treatment

~ Lokmanya Tilak Medical General Hospital

~ JJ Hospital

~ Thane Civil Hospital

~ MSF Treatment Center

Referral Linkages

To meet the specific requirements

of the MSM-PLWHA, HST initiated

“Sanjeevani” a group

formed by and for MSM-PLWHA

Care, Support & Treatment

Safe space for positive men to meet and discuss their issues

Initiate activities for getting family and community support

Professional mental health support

Sanjeevani

Initiating programs to promote healthy minds and healthy bodies

Treatment of Opportunistic Infections (OIs) and enrollment in accessing ART

Nutrition counseling and nutritive supplement support

Sanjeevani

Clear sense of purpose

Tried to accept projects from donors that fit squarely with this purpose

Focused in setting and maintaining standards of quality in each component of our work

Community Involvement at all levels

Reflections

Thanks Thanks

Questions ? Questions ?