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CARE India Trust has been selected as the Technical Support Unit of OSACS, and would strengthen activities related to Targeted Interventions, Capacity Building, Public-Private Partnerships and overall Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.
Interagency Collaboration
A Donor Coordination Steering Committee has been set up at OSACS in 2008, which aims at institutionalizing the coordination mechanism between OSACS and donor agencies/development partners working in the state on HIV/AIDS.
OSACS has partnered with all funding agencies both international & national operating in the state like UNICEF, UNDP, DFID, OXFAM, HLFPPT, Lepra Society, CONCERN World Wide, KIIT Deemed University, Population Services International, Parivar Seva Sanstha, Action Aid, Satyam Foundation, Orissa AIDS Solidarity Forum, etc. have come together into one platform and determined to fight against HIV/AIDS in an intensive manner in the arena of PREVENTION, CARE, SUPPORT & TREATMENT on HIV/AIDS.
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB) has been identified as the State Level Training Resource Centre to support trainings for Targeted Interventions.
Action Aid India Society is implementing the Link Worker Scheme in the 6 high prevalence districts of Angul, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Khurda and Ganjam, and would be helping OSACS establish District level units to facilitate the scheme, in association with the district administration.
Action Aid Association has been selected as the Mainstreaming Resource Unit for providing training and technical support to the State Mainstreaming Unit.
Bhoruka Public Welfare Trust has been entrusted the responsibility of strengthening STD clinics in the state through Public-Private partnership models.
Ballarpur Industries Limited, in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry, is setting up the first ART centre in the state under corporate partnership.
SATYAM Foundation
In the collaboration with SATYAM’s Social Wing at their Bhubaneswar chapter, OSACS developed some of the IEC Materials to create awareness among the youth & general public. Satyam in its endeavor proposed to conduct sensitization workshops/ meeting in all the Management Colleges / Institutes, IT Development sectors of the state.
The agency has also supported OSACS in developing its website.
UNDP India:
Apart from the ongoing UNDP supported mainstreaming project, OSACS has partnered with UNDP on a source-destination Migration project. OSACS has helped development of Identity Card -cum-Information Pocket Booklet to be distributed among migrant labourers of Ganjam who migrate specifically to Gujarat.
For the first time in Orissa, a Photography training of Commercial Sex Workers (CSW) was conducted to give them additional livelihood/ vocational options and to enhance their self esteem and confidence, as part of the overall TAHA (Trafficking and HIV/AIDS) project
UNDP has also launched the Leadership and Managerial Proficiency (LAMP) programme along with XIMB to build leadership skills and managerial capacities among PLHAs across the country, in an endeavour to strengthen networks of positive persons.
OXFAM:
OXFAM has supported development of workplace intervention strategies - a workshop was organized with the participation of industrial houses , UN Agencies, Education institutions, NGOs etc. Orissa is the first low prevalent state in the country to have this kind of workshop organized.
OXFAM also supported training of OSACS’s HIV/AIDS Counselors in two batches through the experts of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
As a result of its ongoing collaboration, OXFAM has provided kits and drugs as and when required by OSACS.
OXFAM also supported an exposure visit on WPI for a team from Orissa to South Africa In 2008.
UNICEF:
For the first time in Orissa, UNICEF has approved its annual action plan for conducting the HIV/AIDS prevention programme with a total budget of 150000 USD on dated 29.12.06.
District level training programme for the PPTCT Teams i.e., Medical Officer, O & G deptt., Micro-biology deptt., & Pediatrics deptt., Staff Nurse & HIV/AIDS Counselor of all districts have been conducted by OSACS with UNICEF support.
UNICEF has helped to set up a PPTCT unit within OSACS.
Clinton Foundation:
Training programme for Private Doctors has been completed for 333 Private Doctors in five districts i.e. Ganjam (Berhampur), Sambalpur (Rourkela), Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Jajpur Road (Cuttack) & Puri and has planned to take up training programme on HIV/ AIDS in other districts like Koraput, Rayagada, Jagatsinghpur, Kalahandi, Sambalpur, Sundargarh & Mayurbhanj.
CD4 Testing of Blood of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and Child Living With HIV/AIDS (CLHA) of the state was conducted in 17 sites during the month of December, 2007, through a partnership with Clinton Foundation and its partner, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited.
Orissa State Road Project (OSRP):
The Orissa State Road Project (OSRP) functioning under Works department has planned to implement the HIV/AIDS prevention Programme in 906 kilometers on State Highway Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 9A, 16, 17, 18, 19, 37, 49 and 53 for which technical supports from OSACS will be given by way of helping OSRP in designing its PIP, Programme strategy for the project in a comprehensive manner so that overlapping of activities on HIV/AIDS could be avoided with the HIV/AIDS prevention programme implemented by OSACS.
World Food Programme (WFP):
An agreement has been signed with WFP India to provide Nutriplus nutritional supplement to persons on ART. Funds have been placed by the Health and FW Department for the same.
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