SONIC - our NGO Partner in Pondicherry
1. The first nutrition distribution program will be conducted on 07.11.2015, and 10 HIV infected children will be receiving the nutrition packets. More over we have identified 30 HIV infected children as on date, all of them deserves nutrition packets. However due to limitations in the funds we are forced to filter those children and reduced to 10 in numbers.
2. Apart from HIV infected children we have also identified poor children and these children will be inducted into the program in the later stages.
3. Currently all the identified HIV children ages ranges from 4 years to 15 years only. We have not taken infant babies below age 4 years because they got support from 'Balvadies' like milk and nutritious flour. Once they attain the age of 4 they will be inducted into the program.
4. The nutrition packets consists of 12 nutrition products like nutrition flour, Lion dates, oats, dry graphs, green peanut, groundnuts, green nuts, horse gram, chickpeas, flatten rice (avvul), Ragi flour and cashew net.
Purpose of giving nutrition packets
As it is very well said that ART medicines works only 50% in the HIV infected body and remaining 50% has to be compensated with nutritious food in order have 100% treatment benefit to extend the death. Consistent intake of nutritious food is must for HIV children to fight against opportunistic infection like Tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid, jaundice, etc.
So it is planned to identify these type of children and support them to have good and healthy life.
On the other hand by distribution of nutrition packets we will closely monitoring the intake of nutrition food as well as ART medicines regularity by conducting house base visits (HBV) to the patient house . In case of default in taking medicines, they will be counselled and motivated to take medicines from ART centers.
Apart from distribution we will be working to enroll the HIV parents in the Government welfare schemes also inorder to have sustainable monitory benefits.
So the program is designed multifaceted which going to benefit the HIV children, HIV parents and family as a whole.
2. Apart from HIV infected children we have also identified poor children and these children will be inducted into the program in the later stages.
3. Currently all the identified HIV children ages ranges from 4 years to 15 years only. We have not taken infant babies below age 4 years because they got support from 'Balvadies' like milk and nutritious flour. Once they attain the age of 4 they will be inducted into the program.
4. The nutrition packets consists of 12 nutrition products like nutrition flour, Lion dates, oats, dry graphs, green peanut, groundnuts, green nuts, horse gram, chickpeas, flatten rice (avvul), Ragi flour and cashew net.
Purpose of giving nutrition packets
As it is very well said that ART medicines works only 50% in the HIV infected body and remaining 50% has to be compensated with nutritious food in order have 100% treatment benefit to extend the death. Consistent intake of nutritious food is must for HIV children to fight against opportunistic infection like Tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid, jaundice, etc.
So it is planned to identify these type of children and support them to have good and healthy life.
On the other hand by distribution of nutrition packets we will closely monitoring the intake of nutrition food as well as ART medicines regularity by conducting house base visits (HBV) to the patient house . In case of default in taking medicines, they will be counselled and motivated to take medicines from ART centers.
Apart from distribution we will be working to enroll the HIV parents in the Government welfare schemes also inorder to have sustainable monitory benefits.
So the program is designed multifaceted which going to benefit the HIV children, HIV parents and family as a whole.