World AIDs Day 2009
WORLD AIDS DAY takes place on December 1st every year. Here at Challenges Worldwide, we are committed to efforts that seek to raise public awareness and reduce the number of HIV suffers in the World. CWW works with several organisations in our host countries to help facilitate this process.
SPAD is one of the many organisations with which we are partnered. SPAD was established in 1993, in response to the challenges posed primarily by HIV/AIDS, with a mission “to create a Just and Humane Society”. CWW invited Dr. Alastair MacDougall to reflect on the work that SPAD has been involved with in the past year. Alastair was a volunteer with SPAD for 3 months, as a key member of the project team on social research.
“SPAD (or ‘The Society for People’s Action for Development’, to give it its full title) is a well-established HIV/AIDS organisation in Bangalore, southern India. It organises HIV sexual health programmes for individuals and targeted groups e.g. health practitioners, young people, sex workers, and also undertakes large-scale HIV-related projects on behalf of government and international organisations.
It is currently engaged in two large-scale projects. The first forms part of India’s National AIDS Control Programme and is sponsored by the European Commission and Christian Aid. Some 57,000 children are born with HIV each year in India and the ‘Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Programme’ aims to reduce this number. SPAD’s second project looks at why certain categories of female sex worker are more susceptible to contracting HIV than other categories of sex worker. The results of this second project are expected in 2010.” Dr. Alastair MacDougall
CWW remains committed to helping organisation such as SPAD.
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