Key programmes
Reaching vulnerable women in rural India
This strategy is one that has really been designed in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline from the very
beginning 
Ellen Vor der Bruegge, Freedom From Hunger
Reach India is a new programme in rural India addressing the social factors that expose the population to the damaging effects of HIV and AIDS: the lack of information and education about the virus; the enormous stigma relating to HIV and AIDS; and the social and economic status of women.
In partnership with Freedom from Hunger and Catholic Relief Services, Positive Action’s Reach India is developing and disseminating an HIV and AIDS education curriculum. This will initally reach at least 2.5 million community members . The numbers will grow to many millions as the project trains hundreds of local organisations to facilitate the HIV and other education projects with self-help groups.
Sabra’s story:
Sabra had not heard of HIV. They didn’t talk about it in her village. Many of the husbands go away to the larger cities to work for long periods of time. Some come back with more than the extra money – they bring back HIV.
Positive Action is bringing HIV education to women through self-help groups. Sabra and half a million Indian women will be talking about, learning about and preventing HIV.
Image courtesy of KarlGrobl.com
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Reach India programme
