This project came into existence within the context of widespread public denial and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. The team efforts are aimed at creating a network which supports the participation of HIV people in decision making processes concerning treatment and protection of their human rights. Thus, the network provokes active social behavior of the virus carriers and supports them in decision making when it is difficult for them to absorb the impact of being diagnosed HIV. This is so, since when diagnosed with HIV, people can easily fall into social dysfunction, which increases due to the presence of intolerant social attitude towards them.
Goal: Adaptation and re-socialization of people affected by HIV/AIDS, via the creation of skills and expansion of the capacity of such existing skills. This is done through consulting among people living with HIVAIDS in the country.
Specific objectives:
- Prevention against negative isolation and self-isolation of people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Motivation of people living with HIV/AIDS aimed at increasing their social activity.
- Reduction of the social distance between the affected and society.
- Improving quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS by ensuring access to quality treatment and care
- Acquisition of skills for coping with stigma and discrimination associated with the disease.
- Survey regarding the available resource for training and skills for counseling among people living with HIV/AIDS, through the conducting of individual interviews, surveys, and focus groups.
- Formation of a training group with skills in consulting, support, and giving assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Training modules preparation.
- Preparation of Manual for use by trained consultants.
- Conduction of train ings.
- Obtaining feedback from trainees.
- Conduction of supervision.
- Providing information and contact with the proposed psychological and social service: people living with HIV/AIDS provide psychological and social support to newly diagnosed people with HIV in the Central Laboratory for AIDS, Skin Venereal Dispensary, Room for anonymous and free counseling and HIV testing; NGOs provide HIV tests; Sectors for observation and treatment of HIV+ patients in Plovdiv, Varna, Pleven, Stara Zagora and Sofia; Creation of a website for online consulting on HIV/AIDS
Building up of network of trained HIV+ consultants with skills in advising HIV+ patients, their partners, relatives, and their families in Vidin, Stara Zagora, Ruse, Targovishte, Haskovo, Harmanli, Plovdiv, Dragoman, Dimitrovgrad and Sofia.
- 22 trained consultants.
- Provided guidance manual on consulting for each of the centers.
- 268 newly diagnosed HIV were counselled and given help and support from trained advisors.
- Released was an informational brochure about the offered services.
- Shortening the period of adaptation and overcoming the initial shock of being newly diagnosed with HIV.
- Provision of missing until this moment service.
- Improving quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS by providing them assistance and support.
- Maintaining the social status and work position of the newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS people, with the help and support of consultants.
- Facilitating access to quality treatment and care of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Contact information:
Pavel Malinov
Coordinator
Kaspar Houser Foundation
1606 Sofia
17 Akad. Ivan Evstatiev Geshov bul.
tel: 02/952 37 80 ext.239
mobile: 0885 09 09 92
e-mail: [email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]
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