District Programme Manager at AP State AIDS Control Society - Hyderabad, Telangana, India
In order to control the spread of HIV/AIDS, Government of Andhra Pradesh implements the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) as a centrally sponsored scheme. The third phase of NACP was launched in July 2007 with a goal tohalt and reverse the epidemic by the end of NACP phase III. A multipronged approach of service delivery integrating various components of HIV prevention, care, support and treatment, defined the strategy during NACP III. Having truly achieved this mission reflected by the decreasing trends of HIV prevalence evidenced by the HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS), APSACS now gears up for the fourth phase of NACP. The mission for NACP IV shall beaccelerating reversal and integrating response.