Meetings & events

• Community Consultation on Advocacy Toolkit

  INP+ organized a two-day community consultation in Chennai on June 9 and 10 to gather inputs on the INP+ advocacy toolkit currently in development. The objectives of the consultation were:

   

  Participants from network affiliates around India discussed the content and provide inputs on challenges and skills           needed by networks to engage in more effective advocacy. They also gave feedback on the proposed contents of the advocacy toolkit developed by INP+. The consultation sessions were facilitated by VSO volunteer Francesca Heintz and INP+ project professionals. The consultation had also discussed on the inputs required for forming an advocacy infrastructure throughout the network.  Photo gallery.

• New Delhi, March 16 More than three decades after the first HIV case was officially reported in India, the community of infected people on March 16, 2010, Tuesday, took a huge step towards coming out of the closet and breaking barriers by releasing a book featuring their photographs. The Secretary, Department of AIDS Control and Director General, National AIDS Control Organization, (NACO)India released the book. Honourable Member of Parliament and chairman for the Forum of Parliamentary committee, Shri  Oscar Fernandes, Mr. Roberto Zagha, Country Director, World Bank, India and Mr. Paul De Lay, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS graced the occasion.

"So far, HIV positive people never allowed their faces to be published without being blurred or covered but we have come out of the closet, showing the real faces to the world. The book, "Positive Journey", portrays the life of nearly 100 HIV positive people through photos and short biographical life stories and it is the culmination of the Network’s hard work among the community. This is a great step in the direction of social assimilation," Goswami added.