Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS programme
was initiated in the year 1994 for the street children and extended
to other high risk groups like female commercial sex workers,
men sex with men, slum population, truckers and their families.
The coverage of these groups fall under the geographical
location of Hyderabad Rangareddy districts of Andhra Pradesh.
The details of population coverage and intervention
sites are mentioned below.
Details of coverage of different thematic HRB groups:
TARGETS
GROUPS |
POPULATION
COVERAGE |
GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA |
| Truck Drivers
and Cleaners |
18,000 |
Two intervention areas
: Autonagar and Mossapet Covering 6 Halt points on National
High way 9 |
| High based
commercial sex workers |
250 |
In all the 6 Halt points
on NH9 |
| Families
of Truck Drivers |
500 |
Two areas : Hamalbathi
and Batasingaram close to two main intervention areas. |
| Slum youth |
1,20,000 |
44 slums in Hyderabd
and Ranga Reddy district. |
| Female sex
workers |
900 |
9 hot spots in Hyderabad
and Ranga Reddy districts. |
| Street Children
|
2,200 |
21 addas (spots) in
twin cities. |
| Male sex
workers |
500 |
15 coursing points in
Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy dist. |
General Population Covered are:
| Target
groups |
Coverage |
| School and
College students |
Educational institutions
in the working areas |
| Factory
workers |
Factories in the working
areas |
| Government
Department : police, |
Mostly traffic departments
in the working areas |
|
