HIV Awareness
Educating communities and adolescents about the deadly HIV/AIDS.
Strengthening the support to weaken the spread of AIDS
HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed 40.1 million lives so far. In 2021, 650 000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.5 million people were affected by HIV. India has the third-largest HIV epidemic in the world and it is one of the biggest challenges faced by the country. Understanding HIV and AIDS can help to be more supportive of people who have it and reduce the chances of becoming infected. HIV is an abbreviation for human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS is an abbreviation for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and is the last stage of HIV infection. HIV virus destroys and impairs the function of immune cells, infected individuals gradually become immunodeficient. Transmission of HIV occurs through contact with certain body fluids of someone infected with HIV.
There is no cure for HIV infection. However, with increasing access to effective HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, including for opportunistic infections, HIV infection has become a manageable chronic health condition, enabling people living with HIV to lead long and healthy lives.
HIV/AIDS and human rights are closely linked together. There are several benefits to taking a human rights approach including, reducing the vulnerability to HIV infection by providing proper means of prevention to vulnerable groups, reducing the impact of the disease on those infected by ensuring proper treatment to combat the disease, increasing the communities ability to better respond to the pandemic by raising awareness and so on. This makes protecting, promoting and fulfilling people’s human rights essential to enable an effective response to the disease.
Our Challenges
Mahesh Foundation set an example in society by supporting these HIV infected children. During the initial days, it was very tough to manage this situation and faced many objections and opposes from society. The People living with HIV face stigma and discrimination from society which leads them to stay away from HIV and other medical care services, education, employment and more.
Our Solution
Our general awareness campaigns to educate society about the infection and break the stigma attached to HIV have changed the opinion of the people and made them support the affected people. Over the past 15 years of the journey of Mahesh Foundation has completely changed the lives of thousands of HIV infected and provided health care facilities to the doorstep, nutrition, best quality facilities, and education.
Right Knowledge
We bring awareness by presenting facts and figures, The real problem, Causes and Preventive methods.
Medical Support
We monitor right medication and also support those suffering from HIV in need of medical support.
Government Policies
We bring awareness of the schemes provided by the government to support the needy, medically.
Self Growth
Progress moves us forward without marginalizing efforts to disrupt responsibility toward a potential the compromising.
Women Rights
Progress moves us forward without marginalizing efforts to disrupt responsibility toward a potential the compromising.
Focus on Education
We bring awareness by presenting facts and figures, The real problem, Causes and Preventive methods.
We have made an Impact!
Our initiatives completely changed the life of thousands of HIV infected people. Now they are leading their healthy life with dignity. Thousands of affected children are pursuing their higher education and becoming self sustained
Total Children Reached
Total Schools Campaigned
Total Volunteers
Why is the awareness necessary?
Many young children come to us for counselling, may it be mental or emotional support, we have expert guides who volunteer themselves to help them find a solution, to calm and encourage the needy.
Many institutes realized the need of bringing awareness among their students and asked us to conduct skill development and awareness programs
Adolescence is a very delicate phase of life, the children require a lot of support, guidance and counselling at this age we regularly need to mentor them.
Gallery
Some glimpses of our Awareness Programs Conducted at various schools
