Virtual Interventions are a promising innovation to reach out and link MSMs who operate via virtual platforms to HIV services. The DL TSU supported the DSACS to implement virtual interventions for MSM using the Map, Adapt, Digitize and Evaluate (MADE model). This note describes the detailed implementation process of the MADE Model of implementation in Delhi.
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This report shares a key evidence from a mapping & size estimation effort that reveals how a significant number of MSMs in the Delhi NCT are on multiple virtual platforms. It also highlights that not many of them have been contacted by conventional Targeted Interventions. This establishes the need & opportunity for a specially-designed virtual intervention to reach out to the MSM population with HIV prevention, treatment and care services.
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IHAT supports the government in building capacity of the service provides to provide quality family planning services to the community. Through this Hindi dubbed version of the WHO film adapted film “Why Did Mrs X Die, Retold”, the service providers are sensitized to medical as well as social factors that play a key role in affecting the health of women during pregnancy and child birth.
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IHAT, in collaboration with DSACS conducted a ‘Virtual Mapping’ exercise to generate estimates of the population size of Men who have Sex with Men (MSMs) active on virtual platforms in Delhi. This document provides a detailed methodology on estimating the size of MSMs active on virtual platforms. Virtual Mapping can become a critical step to develop a comprehensive HIV intervention to reach and provide access to MSMs on virtual platforms.
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Community health workers (CHWs) play a key role in the health of mothers and newborns in low- and middleincome countries. However, it remains unclear by what actions and messages CHWs enable good outcomes and respectful care.
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