Recent Activities

Orientation Program Organised by KSACS for the Prathyasa Staff

An orientation program was organised for the staff of Prathyasa Centres by KSACS. As many as 27 staff of various DICs in the state took part in the program.

Classes were taken on topics- Basic Information and Services Update, DIC for Social Development, Roles and Responsibilites of DIC Staff, Stigma and Discrimination-Myths and Misconcepts of HIV/AIDS.

For the newly appointed accountants, a class has been taken on topics, Maintaining Finance Proprietary and Finance Reporting.

Dr TV Velayudhan, Additional Project Director, KSACS, Sri. S Ajaikumar, JD, IEC, KSACS Smt. Anjana, GIPA Coordinator, KSACS, Sri G Sunilkumar, Consultant, KSACS, and Sri.Jayachandran, DDF, KSACS were present at the program.

Spreading the message of hope among HIV positives in the district, the Prathyasa Centre in Malappuram is moving ahead with a host of commendable activities. Unlike in other Prathyasa Centres, charity is pouring in here in man and kind. Of this, the most praiseworthy help came from the depositors of the cooperative bank, Angadippuram. Some of the depositors have conveyed their readiness to offer the interest they receive on their deposits to the DIC to help the positive people. Inspired by this action, DIC is planning to approach other banks in thedistrict also.

DICs activities have helped it to continue the nutritional support scheme, when other DICs had to stop the scheme. A school teacher in the district took the initiative to pool in an assistance Rs.5,000 monthly to the DIC. She, besides contributing her own money, collects money from her colleagues also for the purpose.

Another feather in the cap of the DIC is that its activities helped five HIV positives to get a work assignment in the District TB-Prevention and Awareness Program carried out by RYF. An NGO, Wayanad Social Service Society, has come forward with a monthly financial assistance of Rs.400 to the HIV negative children of positives studying in High School classes and above.

Interested positives can also get the benefit of the continuing education scheme as the State Literacy Mission has already started cooperating with DIC. Twenty-four clinics functioning under Pain and Palliative Care are providing home care service to bedridden HIV positives free of cost.

Also, the CST Mission Hospital, Kodakkal, is providing all treatment, except ART, free of cost to the positive people.