CARE's SAKSHAM programme has been empowering communities for two years. The effort strengthens awareness, knowledge, skills for HIV/AIDS management amongst non-governmental organisations in India.
The programme's mantra is community based structural interventions or CLSI, which rests on three tenets, which lead to holistic empowerment, and thereby, a reduction in HIV transmission:
* mobilising vulnerable communities to access their rights
* building access and utilisation of services
* developing an enabling environment
CARE puts the CLSI to test at a demonstration site in Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh, a semi-urban hot-spot for HIV transmission, before transferring these learnings to the NGO partners of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's HIV prevention initiative, AVAHAN.
Already, the programme has catalysed a powerful movement wherein sex workers have started to engage with political structures to access their health and human rights.
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