The global AIDS epidemic poses an unprecedented threat to society and India is no exception. In Delhi also, the growing number of HIV/AIDS cases is a genuine cause for concern. Delhi’s rapid population growth nearly half of which is due to migration, presents a unique challenge in the struggle against HIV infection. Information is the key component in the prevention of HIV.
Causes to Spread HIV/AIDS: As the disease become more widespread, it can be transmitted through other channels such as by blood transfusion or from parent to child. It then becomes a disease that can affect anyone, not only those with high risk behaviour.
In Delhi, the proportion of HIV transmitted through sexual contact, 64 percent is lower than that of all India at 85 percent. Transmission by blood transfusion and blood product is about 5 percent compared to 2.7 percent at the national level.
Aids Awareness Group in Delhi:
AIDS Awareness Group (AAG) is a voluntary which was registered in 1994 under the Societies Registration Act (1860). It helps towards minimising human suffering in the fields of health, STIs / AIDS, domestic violence, through awareness programmes, treatment and referrals and counselling to facilitate generation of options for crisis resolution. Organization concentrate mainly on HIV/AIDS & STIs awareness programmes so that this epidemic can be controlled and the incidence of HIV infections is minimized. You will get a syndrome treatment of STIs because it is not always possible to take the clients for laboratory tests. If a person is infected with STIs, he / she is at greater risk of getting infected with HIV.
Aim:
1.Creating awareness about HIV / AIDS / STIs in the jails, red light areas, slums, universities, colleges, schools, etc.
2.Providing counselling for people infected and / or affected by HIV / AIDS.
3.To produce IEC (information, education, communication) material on HIV/AIDS and STIs, Sex and Sexuality and allied topics.
4.To observe, (discretely) if the human rights of prisoners are being violated, and take appropriate action to inform the concerned authority confidentially.
5.Helping victims of domestic violence and other disadvantaged persons referred to us, and providing legal aid.
6.To take up advocacy work on issues of social injustices, unfair policies and discriminatory law enforcement, in collaboration with like minded NGO groups, and lawyers.
Address:
119 D, Humayun Pur,
Safdarjung Enclave,
New Delhi – 110029
Phone: 011 – 26187953
Email: aag94@ymail.com
List of HIV/AIDS Centers in Delhi:-
Shafa Home
Plot No. 130,
Pocket 1, Kanjhawala Road,
Sector 20, Rohini
Delhi -110085
Phone: 011-265714231
Email: ranjan_shafa@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.shafahome.org
Agency for Community Care and Development
#B-10/7059
Vasant Kunj
Delhi -110070
Mobile: 9811117021
Email: drlalthangsing@vsnl.net
Delhi State Aids Control Society
D.S.A. Hospital 1st & 2nd Floor
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Marg, Sector 6
Rohini
Delhi -110085
Phone: 011-27055724
F & B AIDS
#106, B-2, Vardhman Palace
Phase 4, Nimri Commercial Complex
Ashok Vihar H.O.
Delhi -110052
Phone: 011-27401666
Visual Aids Corporation
1/56, 1st Floor,
Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar
Delhi -110092
Phone: 011-22012588
Rock Well Testing Aids
C76-A, Street No. 7,
Jyoti Colony, Shahdara
Jaffrabad
Delhi -110053
Mobile: 9810177064
Swastik Welaids
A-2A-102, Major Deepak Tyagi Marg
Janakpuri, Delhi -110058
Phone: 011-25559683
