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Health, HIV and AIDS
 IDYWC is adopting a dual strategy to ensure the access of health services and hence sound health for all.
The first strategy includes facilitation of the processes of creating trained community cadres, like dais, health workers, barefoot veterinary doctors and traditional medical practitioners. Efforts are being made to link them to the government infrastructure for sustainability, like the accreditation of dais has been arranged. These trained dais/health workers have proved to be a great asset in ensuring safe services to the expectant mothers.
The second strategy includes promotion of the use of government infrastructure without any hitch.
Refresher and follow-up training programmes are regularly conducted. The topics dealt in the trainings are ante-natal and post-natal care, symptoms and treatments of common diseases like malaria, cholera, dehydration, first aid, preventive treatments, identification and use of locally available herbal medicinal plants etc. Information on immunisation and its schedule is one of the main components of the training.
The programme lays stress on informal meetings on health education and home visits.
HIV and AIDS
IDYWC's work for Targeted Intervention of core groups of Chhindwara block of the district is based on the ground needs for the prevention of new STI and HIV infections. The project is focused on the core group containing female sex workers.
It is estimated that more than 90 per cent HIV transmission in India is related to unprotected sexual intercourse of sharing of injecting equipments between an infected and uninfected individual. Not every one in the population has the same risk of acquiring HIV.
Much of transmission in the area occurs within groups or sexual partners or the sharing of injecting drug equipments. The broader transmission of HIV beyond these High Risk Groups often occurs through their sexual partners, who also have lower risk sexual partners in the general population. The primary data shows very high incidence of these core groups in Chhindwara.
The organisation's goals for target group is to prevent new HIV and STI infections among the core group of Chhindwara block in the next three years. The objective is to cover all the FSWs (250) and 154 MSMs of the block. The project objectives are made on the basis of the need to achieve the goal of the project to prevent the HIV and STI among the 404 persons involved in the high risk group.
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