Community Care Centres play a critical role in providing treatment, care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA).Under NACP-III these centres are attached to ART centres and ensure that PLHA are provided: (a) counselling for ARV drug adherence, nutrition and prevention (b) treatment of opportunistic infection (c) referral and outreach services for follow up and (d) social support services.
The centres are mandated to seek better community and family response towards PLHA through family counselling. For better treatment outcome, the centres provide families of PLHA counselling on the patients nutritional needs, treatment adherence and psychological support.
Delhi has 5 Community Support Centres run by NGOs, and take care of PLHIV in Delhi linked to the ART Centres in Delhi. These are run by NGOs under the Vihaan Initiative.
NCPI (Subrecipient of the Vihaan Project) is the Nodal NGO for Delhi which monitors and co-ordinates the functioning of the CSCs in Delhi and the NGOs (Subsubrecipent partners) running the CSCs. The CSCs are run by :
- Love Life Society - 2 CSCs including one for specifically for Trangenders
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- OPNP +
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