ANBAGAM (“Home of Love”)
Community Care Center of Island Trust
Where people of the The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India, who are living with HIV/AIDS, can take advantage of outpatient and inpatient care, protection, affection and develop memorable relationships.
The programs offered in this wonderful little place are:
Treatment and patient management
Inpatient (10 beds) and outpatient service
Consultation of illnesses related to HIV/AIDS
Comprehensive care for prevention and treatment of other infections
Medical monitoring for the side effects and tolerance of the ART regimen
Counseling
Treatment adherence and treatment literacy
Couple counseling
Infant feeding
Reproductive health
Nutrition
Positive living and prevention
Home-based care
(Many of these people are day laborers on the tea plantations; i.e., when they come in for treatment, they don’t get paid and therefore don’t eat.)
Home-based care
Outreach for follow-up for ART (antiretroviral therapy) adherence
Trace and retrieve defaulters
Transportation to referral centers
Facilitation of home-based care
Coordination with referral center for support
Other support
Support for people living with HIV who face social rejection
Recreational facilities
Advocacy with various stakeholders
Promote income generation (especially HIV-positive widows/ destitute)
Self-help groups
Link with legal services
Links with peer-support networks
Facilitate access to resources available from government and NGOs
Creating linkages between other service providers and patients for personal development
Special medical care for problems outside HIV and other infections
Nutritional supplement bags with cereals and food materials
Educational assistance to infected and affected children
Repair and renovation of houses
Promotion of employment
Campaign against stigma and discrimination
Remarriage/reunion among discordant couples
Organizing festivals/functions
Mobilizing local resources for poverty reduction
Future Action Plans
Promotion of self reliance among HIV positive widows and the destitute
Vocational training and skill development
Promotion of micro entrepreneurship
Ensure fundamental education for HIV infected and affected children
Continued healthcare services for all people living with HIV
Provision of home care for HIV orphans and the invalid
Implementing Organization
Island Trust, which stands for Indo Sri Lankan Development Trust, was founded in 1984 in Tamil Nadu, South India, to render succor, relief and love to the displaced Tamil repatriates from Sri Lanka. Island Trust has completed 26 years developing the capacity of its target groups in The Nilgiris.
Island Trust has been extending care and support services to people living with HIV and AIDS since 2004. IT was prompted to take up care and support services because of its direct experience with HIV positive people in its working villages and has adopted prevention, care, support and promotion of self reliance among people living with HIV in The Nilgiris.
It receives project support from the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society and AIDS Prevention and Control Project for the implementation of a community care center project and prevention education in 120 villages.
You can download a brochure
here on Anbagam
