Coverage:

• Location : Delhi
• Families under Home Based Care : 160
• People under Crises Care Center : 2496
• New registration of HIV infected patients : 216

Key Accomplishments

• Shalom Home Based Care (HBC) extended its services to 41 new families, taking the total to 160 families.
• 1458 patients with HIV were treated in the outpatient care services, of which 216 were newly registered patients.
• 294 patients received care through the inpatient care services.
• 13 Churches were mobilized for volunteering with Shalom, and adopted 38 HBC families
• Six trainings on HIV/AIDS were conducted for NGOs.

» Critical Care and Home Based Care are major programs of Shalom. The critical care program offers a 10-bed in-patient facility to positive people, for treatment of opportunistic infection. Patients are followed-up through regular home visits. Last year, through 834 home visits, many patients became stable, both medically and emotionally.
» The adolescent programme is a new initiative, introduced in May 06. 30 adolescents from HBC families registered for the program. Every month two training sessions were conducted. The program imparted basic life skills; and information on health, future dreams, peer pressure, self esteem, relationships, legal issues and HIV/AIDS, to young people. Extra emphasis was given on spiritual aspects, with each session starting with songs and prayer. Bible stories and verses were integrated into the training. The group presented a skit on “Prodigal Son” during Shalom's annual Christmas function.

Many families under the Home Based Care are poor, and depend on temporary sources of income to meet their daily needs. Shalom initiated an income generating scheme to help some of these poor families increase their income. The staff networked with employment contractors to get jobs for the widows, with potential employers. A few widows were able to obtain jobs in schools, offices, and local factories. Some widows were trained to make cards and envelopes. Although the jobs paid less, they made a valuable contribution to the family income.