Aghaz-e-Nau

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Aghaz-E-Nau (AEN) has experience of working with NGOs/CBOs from different cities of Pakistan. AEN carried out capacity building programs for NGOs/CBOs from all over the Pakistan.   Our main focus remained on PWID, FSWs, Inmates and Youth as far as HIV prevention interventions are concerned. We carried out two projects for FSWs funded by CIDA and UNODC respectively. AEN also worked with sex workers (FSWs, MSW/MSM/TGs) to see the effect of different prevention interventions on high risk behavior of sex workers. Our work with sex workers got published in many journals. Given below is a short list of projects, which we carried out starting from 1993 till 2017. AEN started its journey with the establishment of a drug rehabilitation center in 1993 with the help of UNDCP initially and then we received funds from EU, CRS and UNODC. We established a separate drug rehabilitation center for females in 1995 with the help of CIDA. We also developed and executed a successful drug abuse prev...

Services Delivery Package for HIV prevention for key populations with expected Outcome.

Lack of access to HIV services Many young people report that healthcare workers have negative attitudes towards young people seeking healthcare services, particularly those having sex under the national age of consent, engaging in homosexual relationships or using drugs.   This deters them from seeking contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) check-ups and HIV testing. Some young people are also fearful of stigma from their partners, families and communities, making them unwilling to come forward for HIV testing in case their families find out that they are sexually active or living with HIV.   Other sexual and reproductive health services deny access to people who are not married. Gender inequality and HIV vulnerability Of all adolescents aged 15-19 who were diagnosed as HIV-positive during 2012, two-thirds were girls. Globally, young girls are more vulnerable to HIV for a number of reasons, but universally the level of HIV knowledge among girls i...

Aghaz-e-Nau: HIV Prevention Interventions by Aghaz-e-Nau

Aghaz-e-Nau (AeN) is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-religious organization registered under Societies Act 1860. AeN is working for the treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of drug abuse problem since 1993. At the same time AeN is working to create awareness about HIV/AIDS amongst the general population and also working tocarry out HIV prevention activities. AeN started working in Gujranwala & Sialkot (Lot-3) from February, 2014 with the following objectives: ·          To halt the HIV prevalence in IDUs at the current level or it should not increase more than 5% above the current level. Specific Objectives: To deliver a defined package of services to all categories of IDUs including: Harm reduction services through syringe exchange Primary healthcare services Management of STIs Sexual and reproductive health education Behavior & communication change services (BCC) HIV Prevention Int...

Aghaz-e-Nau (AeN) is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-religious organization registered under Societies Act 1860. AeN is working for the treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of drug abuse problem since 1993. At the same time AeN is working to create awareness about HIV/AIDS amongst the general population and also working tocarry out HIV prevention activities. AeN started working in Gujranwala & Sialkot (Lot-3) from February, 2014 with the following objectives: ·          To halt the HIV prevalence in IDUs at the current level or it should not increase more than 5% above the current level. Specific Objectives: To deliver a defined package of services to all categories of IDUs including: Harm reduction services through syringe exchange Primary healthcare services Management of STIs Sexual and reproductive health education Behavior & communication change services (BCC) HIV Prevention Int...

Aghaz-e-Nau (AeN) is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-religious organization registered under Societies Act 1860. AeN is working for the treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of drug abuse problem since 1993. At the same time AeN is working to create awareness about HIV/AIDS amongst the general population and also working tocarry out HIV prevention activities. AeN started working in Gujranwala & Sialkot (Lot-3) from February, 2014 with the following objectives: ·          To halt the HIV prevalence in IDUs at the current level or it should not increase more than 5% above the current level. Specific Objectives: To deliver a defined package of services to all categories of IDUs including: Harm reduction services through syringe exchange Primary healthcare services Management of STIs Sexual and reproductive health education Behavior & communication change services (BCC) HIV Prevention Interve...

What Young People Need to Know? The behavior of young people now will determine the future of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. If we cannot change the behavior of people who do not have HIV and AIDS, the disease will only spread even more widely. There are many different kinds of projects that can be used to reach young people. The most successful ones all over the world, have used the principle of “peer education”. This means that young people are trained to be the educators of other young people. They are much better at communicating with other young people and are not treated with the suspicion that young people might have for older people who come and tell them what to do with their lives. Young people need to be educated and learn how to deal with things like: Preventing HIV and AIDS through healthy and safe sexual practices Preventing sexually-transmitted infections Understanding drug-use and the spread of HIV and AIDS Understanding sex, reproduction and safe-sex ...

What Young People Need to Know? The behavior of young people now will determine the future of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. If we cannot change the behavior of people who do not have HIV and AIDS, the disease will only spread even more widely. There are many different kinds of projects that can be used to reach young people. The most successful ones all over the world, have used the principle of “peer education”. This means that young people are trained to be the educators of other young people. They are much better at communicating with other young people and are not treated with the suspicion that young people might have for older people who come and tell them what to do with their lives. Young people need to be educated and learn how to deal with things like: Preventing HIV and AIDS through healthy and safe sexual practices Preventing sexually-transmitted infections Understanding drug-use and the spread of HIV and AIDS Understanding sex, reproduction and safe-sex ...

Donate Us This project has come during the right time with great urgency since it is meant to fill in the gap that Parents, teachers and other community members neglected their responsibility in educating their youth about HIV/AIDS prevention . It is urgent since the number of new infections among young people in our areas is increasing daily. The transition made here is base where our youth will have the right knowledge that will empower them in the right actions. That will contribute into the reduction of not only new HIV infections, but also reduction of other sexually transmitted diseases as it fills the knowledge gap created by existence of silence among parents teachers and other community.

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Today, young people (15-24) account for 40 per cent of all new adult HIV infections. Each day, more than 2400 young people become infected with HIV—and some five million young people are living with HIV. Young people are a fulcrum. They remain at the center of the epidemic and they have the power, through their leadership, to definitively change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Experience over the past decade has demonstrated how to address HIV among young people . In countries with concentrated epidemics, programs and resources must focus on adolescents and youth who engage in risky behaviors, including injecting drugs, selling sex and men who have sex with men. In countries with generalized epidemics, where the general population is at risk, all vulnerable young people, particularly young women, need to be targeted priority in policy and program design. Evidence shows that sex education helps in reducing the risk of HIV by delaying the onset of sexual ...