According to 2007 estimates from the National AIDS Control Organisation, in India, 70,000 children below the age of 15 are living with HIV, and 21, 000 children are infected every year through parent-to-child transmission. With the funding support from the Global Fund to Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) – Round 6, the India HIV/AIDS Alliance (as a civil society Principal Recipient), and its consortium of 8 Sub-Recipients, is implementing an expanded child-centered home and community-based care and support project, in line with the strategic priorities of the National AIDS Control Programme Phase III. Over the next 5 years, the CHAHA project (meaning ’a wish’ in Hindi) will extend care and support services to 64,000 children living with and/or affected by HIV and AIDS, and their families (especially women-headed households), and will work closely with different stakeholders and Government Ministries to find ways to help keep children with their parents or extended families.
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