Give life for 55 HIV children in Tamilnadu, India

PROJECT TITLE :

GIVE LIFE FOR 55 HIV CHILDREN IN TAMILNADU , INDIA (8640)

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FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH :

GLOBALGIVING – ONLINE DONATION

REPORT TITLE:

WORLD AIDS DAY - NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT , REGULAR HOME VISITS AND CONSTANT COUNSELING

REPORT PERIOD :

16.10.11 to 24.01.12

        As you know we are helping through GlobalGiving 55 HIV infected children being joined with your project since September 2011. Through GlobalGiving project we are provided Nutritional support, Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) Treatment Transport support and counseling. By the support to Global Giving project , not only health condition is improved, their skills are encouraged much. Related with this service we arranged a meeting for these children in our office Derose center on world AIDS Day on 1^st December 2011.

 WORLD AIDS DAY

All children participated in this meet. Good ideas are delivered to the children through this meeting. Nutrition supports, such as dates fruits, Corn Flakes, cicer Gram, Ground nut Green gram and palm sugar were given to the children. The participants of the meeting were ART Medical Officer Dr. Sreenivasan   Mrs. Jeevan (Trans Gender) president of Thoothukudi District HIV positive Federation and Mrs. Selvi , President of Thoothukudi positive women Welfare society. All of them offered good ideas regarding health activities.

 WORKSHOP THEMES :

 Demonstration on Nutrition mix ,

Regular Anti Retro-viral therapy in take

Health care Knowledge

Career Guidance

CD4 counts and procedure

  And about the necessity of children Education. They delivered the Nutritional materials provided by us to the children.

 All Participated children in this meeting were found very happy. All children were from varies places and not known to each other. They had the good interaction with each other. Muthu Meena a child from village is taking ART. Her father was dead and her mother also takes ART and had the good conversation with the other children. She encouraged the other children to get ART regularly as she takes the same regularly and emphasized the importance of ART. She shared with the other children and encouraged them by saying her help to her mother to take tablets and other medicines regularly. All then children attended in the meeting were very eagerly hearing the talk of the child Muthu Meena. Their faces glittered with the new hope.

 CASE STUDY :

 Another child named Esakki Muthu from keela Thattaparai also attended in this meeting . The  boy has no parents. He is   living with the guidance of his grand mother. He is studying in 9^th std. His grand mother is a wage working lady on daily basis. He is studying with her help. He shared with the  other children happily about the help of the Global Giving Project. As his grand mother was sick , he himself came to our office alone with much zeal. He also shared this with the other children.

           Not only the arrangement of this meet, we visit regularly the homes of the HIV infected children. Not only the generally counseling regarding health, but also the positive prevention counseling is necessary for them.

  A child named Kausalya from Vadakku sema puthur was visited by us She is living with her grand mother as kausalya as parents had already passed away before 5 years . She is mature girl aged about 16. As the family is  in poor condition , she wasn't in the situation of going to work in a near by Match factory being quit  her study in the midst. Being known the situation of Kausalya we talked with her grand parents.

 We have also talked with the local panchayat president to provide her grand parents an easy daily wages work for their livelihood. Also we have given counseling about health care and positive prevention counseling. Then service we do through Global Giving project is not only for the health care about children but also for the positive prevention of HIV to the children.

CASE STUDY :

Name     :      Selvi

Age        :        8

Address :         C/o Mrs. Murugamma

                        Colony street

                        Kulasekaranallur

                        Ottapidaram TK

                        Thoothukudi Dt

      My Name is Selvi. Up to my age of 3 years our family condition was very happy . My father is a farmer. We all lived together along with our grand parents. When I was 4 years old, my father expired we thought he died of some sickness

 After the death of my father my mother’s health condition became weaker day by day. My grand parents thought  that my mother became weak because of the death of my father. Ottapidaram is here our village . My mother went to the G.H at Ottapidaram and had the medical checkup over there . She was not recovered. Therefore my uncle took my mother to thoothukudi Medical College Hospital for further treatment. There the doctors doubted about my mother’s sickness and suggested for HIV Test. Eliza test was performed to my mother. In the report it was found out my mother has HIV +ve . Being heard this my mother got shocked. Following this another Eliza test was done to my mother. It was confirmed that my mother has the HIV +ve . Then only all of our family members knew that our father expired of HIV. All of our family members were pathetic about my mother. My mother was very sad and found weeping always. Following this I was also taken to the hospital for HIV test. It was also found that I had HIV +ve . Now all of our family members attention and mercy turned towards me. As the HIV +ve was not found in the time my CD4 level was very low. Therefore my mother and I are taking ART regularly. People were sad about us and nobody help us. Now the GlobalGiving project is much helpful to us.    

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