Kids bring creativity, awareness to World Environment Day
Ganeshpuri, India— On June 5, the people of Ganeshpuri celebrated World Environment Day with activities organized by representatives from PRASAD Chikitsa, and from local schools and youth groups. At the Primary School of Ganeshpuri, enthusiastic children created drawings and Rangoli to express how trees benefit both people and the environment. Read more…
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Donor, Margareta Blix, is celebrating the life of her beloved late sister, Gudrun, with a grant of up to $20,000 that will provide a dollar-to-dollar match for new donations to PRASAD Children's Dental Health Program (PRASAD CDHP) received through October 31, 2010. Read more...
“Paddlers for Humanity” Open Ocean Paddle to benefit PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program
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New Annex boosts capacity at Family Health Center
On April 21, 2009, PRASAD Chikitsa broke ground for a 1,100-square-foot addition to the Family Health Center. By September 3, the new annex was built, painted, furnished and ready to welcome patients.
PRASAD Chikitsa’s Board and staff members enjoyed conducting an inaugural tour of the sunny, spacious, patients’ ward, rooms for private counseling, Anti-Retroviral Therapy and
exams, a dispensary, a laboratory and staff offices and upgraded sanitation. For the HIV-positive children, there is even a Day Care Center, complete with kitchen and bathrooms.
The HIV/AIDS program had a modest beginning in 2004 and, within five years, it has emerged as a leader in comprehensive care, treatment, education and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
The Indian government has recognized the FHC as an HIV/AIDS Integrated Counseling and Testing Center (ICTC). This means that reports from the FHC receive international acceptance. The FHC is also now a Linked Anti-Retroviral Therapy Center (LAC). As a LAC, the Center receives free public educational materials, rapid HIV test kits, protective kits, Anti-Retroviral Therapy(ART) medicine and free staff training through India’s National AIDS Control.
”People from far and wide are referred into this program and they continue to come back (for regular treatment) as we endeavor not only to treat, but to heal, the patient,” says Dr. Surendra Yadav, who oversees the program.
“The program has set a benchmark in HIV and RCH care for the whole of Maharashtra state,” he added.
For more on the FHC and its programs, click on the following links.
http://www.prasad.org/news-desk/midwife-training.php
http://www.prasad.org/programs/aids-programs.php