Global AIDS - India
Nrityanjali Academy
# 9-3-501, Regimental bazaar, Secunderabad – 500025, Andhra pradesh,
INDIA.
Phone: + 91-40-27702641,27705032, 55289641.
The Nrityanjali Academy is a non-profit voluntary organisation working
in the field of STD/HIV/AIDS for the past eight years in the Slums and
Villages of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Rangareddy villages.
- In the year 1999, with the help Andhra Pradesh AIDS Control Society
(APSACS), and the technical support by TRU (Technical Resource Unit)
we have started targeted interventions on STD/HIV/AIDS with migrant
population in slums, village’s specific concentration on orphan
children and street children of Andhra Pradesh. We are the pioneers
in starting an intervention with slum population in Andhra Pradesh.
In the total project we could able to reach out to 9500 risk behaving
people, with 527 STD cases.
- With the help of BIMEG started RCH project targeting main on Antenatal
and Postnatal Women, STD/HIV/AIDS awareness for Adolescent girl, Male
youth, Married Male and Female.
- With the support and co-operation of Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
we are successfully implementing Home based Care and support project
for the people living with HIV. Presently we have around 325 PLWHA's
for which we are providing Medical, Physical, Counseling and Nutritional
support. In our project interventions we are coming across with many
numbers of PLWHA's.
- With the help and support of FHI and CRS we have started implementing
CAA (Children infected and affected with HIV/AIDS) project in 41 slums
of Secunderabad. In the process of project implementation we could
able to address the services to 73 children infected with HIV/AIDS
and 435 affected children.
To reach out to the people affectivity we have developed various kinds
of low cost IEC/BCC Material, they are kept as collections of John Hopkins
University, Media Material clearing house.
We welcome any donor agency to visit our target area, analyze our approach
and the way we are reaching out to High-risk people and implementing
the project that will help us to develop mutual co-ordination and support
for our project activities.
Our specialization is AIDS awareness shows in the form of cultural
activities. We have developed innovative and participatory Street dramas/Skits
on HIV/AIDS that make the people to participate, clarify their myths,
and misconnects on HIV/AIDS. Till date around 2000 shows are conducted
in various parts of Andhra Pradesh.
Our main focus of awareness shows are to address stigma and discrimination.
Working for AIDS free society,
P.Narsing Rao,
Director/President,
Email: pnarsingrao@yahoo.com,
nrityanjaliacademy@yahoo.com
http://www.nrityanjali.org
Office Address:
10-1-559, 45 TIT Blocks, Renuka Nilayam, East Nehru Nagar, W.Maredpally,
Secunderabad – 500026. Andhra pradesh, India
The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated gratefully acknowledges the wonderful
work of the Nrityanjali Academy and its particular and valued assistance
in regard to the recent instance of AIDS stigma as referred to in the
Freedom Foundation's report herein.
George CST (georgecst@yahoo.com)
also reported in on the good work that had been accomplished in this
particular case "..it has envisioned the hopes of thousands of
people all over India. Hats off to you. CST is an NGO working with self-help
groups in Salem and Namakkal areas where the incidence of HIV/AIDS is
also high." Its website is www.cst-slm.org
And Meenal Mehta of meenalmehta@hotmail.com
also wrote in "We have had the good support from the Nrityanjali
Academy as well. We conducted our cultural programme last year with
their help. Ours is a Care Centre funded by MDACS (Mumbai Districts
AIDS Control Society). It feels good to see good work in any part of
the world and good things happening to any person in the world. With
regards, Meenal.
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