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Altogether 31 Union ministries and departments of the Government of India have mainstreamed HIV/AIDS prevention in their day-to-day functioning. Each of these organisations has one dedicated HIV/AIDS unit with at least one focal person from staff. All these organisations have developed a situation assessment report and five-year HIV/AIDS action plan covering critical elements, including:
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Internal budgetary allocation for implementing HIV/AIDS action plan
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Plan for HIV/AIDS unit
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Identification of comparative advantage to the Department/ Ministry in introducing the preventive interventions, and entry points for HIV interventions in the Ministry/ Department’s work
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Cost-benefit analysis of measures taken for HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Rights-based workplace policy: training and sensitisation of internal staff as a first step
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Workplace interventions for care, support and treatment, including provision of commodities and services for HIV/AIDS infected or affected.
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Ongoing monitoring and feedback: reporting of core indicators to the National Council on AIDS In these activities and interventions of various ministries, NACO, State AIDS Control Societies and technical experts provide all support for setting up the HIV unit, developing reporting lines within department, reports, training/sensitising staff and developing workplace policy.
NACO maps and identifies priority organisations/government ministries that have direct or indirect relevance to the HIV and AIDS response (e.g. direct relevance - Railways, Steel as large employers; indirect relevance – Labour Ministry, Police Department for the statutory support they can provide to HIV/AIDS programmes). NACO has identified 13 focus government ministries, but these can vary according to the mapping in each state. All 13 union ministries have to achieve the objective of HIV prevention and control, and contribute to this by integrating HIV into their larger mission.
The specific role of each ministry - More Details
The National Policy on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work - Download
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