| Links to NACO site |
| ART centres in India http://www.nacoonline.org/Living_with_HIVAIDS/Download_ART/ |
| Testing centres in India http://www.nacoonline.org/upload/Documents/ICTCs.pdf |
| Counselling centres in India http://www.nacoonline.org/upload/NACO_04/All%20India%20CCC%20list.xls |
State Aids Prevention and Control Societies |
| Hotlines and helplines http://www.nacoonline.org/Living_with_HIVAIDS/Hotlines_Helplines/ |
| NACO site to register discrimination complaint http://www.nacoonline.org/Living_with_HIVAIDS/Register_stigma/ |
| Other Useful Links |
The newly designed website of the Health Group of PRAYAS (www.prayaspune.org) now has downloadable animated slide sets in Marathi and English for AIDS awareness programmes. Feedback on the material is invited. |
| ‘HIV response corner’ is an initiative of India’s ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation to highlight the relationship between poverty and HIV/AIDS. Apart from basic facts on HIV and its links to poverty it facilitates networking of people living with HIV and provides national data on HIV and AIDS. http://mhupa.gov.in/AIDS_CENTRE/page2.htm |
| A research paper by Happymon Jacob, assistant professor, department of Strategic and Regional Studies, University of Jammu, India, entitled ‘Impact of HIV/AIDS on Governance in Manipur and Nagaland’. The paper is the product of a six-month study aimed at understanding the linkages between HIV/AIDS and governance in India's militancy hit north-east region. The paper has been published by AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative, a joint programme of Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. http://asci.researchhub.ssrc.org/impact-of-hiv-aids-on-governance-in-manipur-and-nagaland/attachment |
| Women Ink, a programme of the International Women's Tribune Centre, has compiled a collection of materials entitled ‘HIV/AIDS and Women: Resources to Support Policy and Advocacy.’ The resource pack comprises some 50 action-oriented tools as well as analyses, reports and case studies on issues of women and HIV/AIDS. It includes materials around the following topics: Advocating for a gender-based approach to HIV/AIDS; protecting the rights of young women and girls; promoting a gender-based approach to prevention and care; guaranteeing sexual and reproductive health and rights for women; supporting leadership among women living with HIV/AIDS; eliminating violence against women; ensuring women's economic rights. http://www.womenink.org |
| Sahaya International has developed cartoon-based educational materials for low-literacy populations to convey simple, comprehensive messages on HIV transmission, prevention, support and care. www.sahaya.org/cartoons.html |
| Launched in November 2006, Wake Up Pune is a coalition of NGOs and representatives from civil society working to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS in the city of Pune, India. http://www.wakeuppune.org |
| The Well Project for positive women, by positive women gives a wealth of information on HIV/AIDS particularly from the woman’s perspective. http://www.thewellproject.org/en_US/ |
| AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, working to avert HIV and AIDS worldwide. Its website gives an overview of AIDS in India and other countries, latest statistics, treatment care, stories from around the world. http://www.avert.org/aidsindia.htm |
| YouandAIDS.org is an HIV/AIDS portal for Asia Pacific that seeks to address the strongly-felt information and services needs of the region, particularly in the overall development context, and act as a regional platform to synergise multisectoral responses against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. http://www.youandaids.org/Asia%20Pacific%20at%20a%20Glance/India/index.asp |
| Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative (SHAII) is committed to bringing together groups and individuals to coordinate Indian and international advocacy efforts to build and promote a
holistic response to HIV pandemics based on in-country needs.
http://www.shaii.org/ |
| World Bank: Preventing HIV/AIDS in India site is updated till 2005 and gives information on risks and responsibilities, vulnerable groups and the response to the challenge. http://www.worldbank.org.in/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/INDIAEXTN/0,, contentMDK:20161744~pagePK:1497618~piPK:217854~theSitePK:295584,00.html |
| ActionAid India takes a rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS in India closely linked with poverty and gender inequities. It also highlights the lack of favourable policies and legal protection to PLWHAs. http://actionaidindia.org/camp_hiv.htm |
| UNICEF on HIV in India http://www.unicef.org/india/hiv_aids.html |
| International HIV/AIDS Alliance in India http://www.aidsallianceindia.net/ |
| AIDSPortal is an internet platform which provides tools to support global collaboration and knowledge sharing among new and existing networks of people responding to the AIDS epidemic. http://www.aidsportal.org |
| Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ |
| I-India for street children works with street children and other disadvantaged children and has an AIDS intervention programme. http://www.i-indiaonline.com/prog_AIDS.htm |
| IPS (Inter Press Services) news reports and stories on HIV/AIDS from across the world: http://ipsnews.net/hivaids.asp |
| Information on street children in India http://www.streetkids-srh.org/ |
| UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/ |
| New York Times site on HIV/AIDS http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/aids/overview.html?excamp=OVHLaids&WT .srch=1&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=HL-S-E-YH-NA-NA-aids |
| Information on travel and residence regulations for HIV+ people by European Aids Treatment Group http://www.eatg.org/hivtravel/ |