VHS - DIVA Project

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Voluntary Health Services Voluntary Health Services (VHS) hospital, established in 1958, is a 465 bedded multi-speciality tertiary teaching hospital. The hospital has a dedicated department working with vulnerable and marginalised communities to improve their health and economic status and advocates to secure human rights an...

We are pleased to share the first poster of “Pack of 5 Culturally Competent Interpersonal Communication Videos to support Transgender and Hijra Service Delivery Programmes in India.” The movie will be screened at IAS 2018, Amsterdam. The teaser will be released on 13 July 2018– Keep Watching This Space ☺️🙏
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On 11.06.18, Sensitisation program with Health Care Providers was organised by VHS – MSA – DIVA Project in association with Srusti Sankula one of the CBO working in Gadag district, Karnataka. Counselors and Lab technicians from ICTC centres from Gadag district participated in the meeting. Understanding Transgender Person, Accept them as they are, Services available for Transgenders other than HIV, Supreme Court Judgement and 90-90-90 concept was discussed in the meeting. Dr. Chandrakala, District Medical Officer, Gadag, Mr. Basvaraj, District Supervisor, DAPCU, Aditya Program Manager from Srusti Sankula and Mr. Johnson Regional Manager from VHS – MSA – DIVA Project were the Resource persons in the sensitisation program.

Community-based and Peer-led HIV testing in Viet Nam improves access to care.
Health workers—from the MSM, FSW and PWID communities were trained to use both oral swab and finger prick kits and to counsel their peers to test. Last year, 2520 people at risk of HIV in Thai Nguyen and Can Tho provinces were supported by a peer to get tested. Among those, 140 people were diagnosed with HIV, and 131 of them started treatment.
In 2017, community-based testing identified 60% of all newly-diagnosed HIV cases in Thai Nguyen and 30% of new cases in Can Tho. Nearly 70% of the people who took an HIV test in the pilot were first-time testers. This suggests that the community-based approach is achieving its goal of “reaching the unreached”.

Cheryl Case Johnson

http://www.wpro.who.int/mediacentre/features/20180507/en/

Doing it for themselves: Peer-led HIV testing in Viet Nam improves access to care