The five-year UN Joint Project on HIV, financed by Australian AIDS programme (AusAID), will be implemented in the states of Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
The 10.50 million dollar programme will be formally launched in New Delhi on October 12.
UNDP Representative Annirudha Brahmachari told senior officials of Nagaland government that the new programme aims at involving various government departments and NGOs through multi-sectoral approach.
As HIV/AIDS is no more a health issue in the high prevalence states, the on-going efforts of prevention, care, treatment and support mechanism must involve all stakeholders, including the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), the new programme envisages.
Mainstreaming of prevention programme is key to succes of containing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the North Eastern states. Although the main objective is to contain the spread of the killer disease and creating infrastructure for infected and affected persons, the programme will be state specific as per the ground realities in each state, Brahmachari explained.
For Nagaland, the programme will be youth friendly prevention initiatives while in Manipur and Mizoram, the strategy is harm reduction.
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