Mass Awareness programme on HIV/AIDS with the communities
Enabling reach of health care services in remote areas for the underprivileged communities
Mass Awareness programme on HIV/AIDS with the communities through Street Plays
OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT
a. Marked improvement in the patients’ health after they enrolled at our centre. This was indicated through consistent weight gain and very few patients remaining away from the work due to ill health. b. Steady increase in CD4 count (marker indicator) of the patients by an average of 15 per cent has been documented in past nine months. This cannot happen only because of drugs but continuous counselling, home visits to PLHAs that has increased their overall well being.
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c. More than 70 per cent PLHA’s have disclosed their HIV positive status to family members. This has helped in reducing the stigma attached with the disease. d. If the patients are provided with adherence counselling and are told about side effects of the drugs the adherence to drugs is found better. Majority of our patient’s adherence is more than 95 per cent, which is higher than national average. e. Haemoglobin (Hb) percentage has increased by 3.3 per cent making them healthier.