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It is estimated that more than 90% of HIV transmission in India is related to unprotected sexual intercourse or sharing of injecting equipment between an infected and an uninfected individual. Not everyone in the population has the same risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV. Much of the HIV transmission in India occurs within groups or networks of individuals who have higher levels of risk due to a higher number of sexual partners or the sharing of injection drug equipment. |
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These core high risk groups (HRGs) of individuals who are most at risk include: |
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Female sex workers (FSWs) |
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High risk men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgenders (TGs) |
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Injecting drug users (IDUs) |
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The broader transmission of HIV beyond these HRGs often occurs through their sexual partners, who also have lower risk sexual partners in the “general” population. For example, a client of a sex worker might also have a wife or other partner who is at risk of acquiring HIV from her higher risk partner. Individuals who have sexual partners in the highest risk groups and other partners are called a “bridge population”, because they form a transmission bridge from the HRG to the general population. HRG members or HRGs have many sexual partnerships with different bridge population members, who in turn have at least one partner in the general population. Given this pattern of epidemic transmission, it is most effective and efficient to target prevention towards HRG members to keep their HIV prevalence as low as possible, and to reduce transmission from them to the bridge population. |
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In Pondicherry, three targeted interventions are being carried with the financial assistance from AIDS Prevention and Control Project, Chennai. The NGOs running the interventions are |
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Name and Address of the NGO/CBO |
Intervention Name |
Supported By |
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Sahodaran,
61, Ground Floor,
Ellaiamman coil street,
Puducherry – 605 001
Phone: 0413-2222469, 2221696 |
MSM |
APAC |
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SFDRT,
468, Anna Salai, Ratna Thetre Complex, Puducherry-605 001
Phone Number : 0413 - 2225658 |
FSW |
APAC |
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BAJSS
No:2, 1st Cross Vivekananda Nagar, Ellai Pillai Chavady,
Puducherry – 605 005 |
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VBEDS,
No:10, Sha Garden,
Shameena Theater Back Side,
Karaikal – 609 605
Phone:04368-231720 |
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