About STRC

National AIDS Control Programme Phase III (NACP III) is focused on saturating the coverage of core and bridge population of HIV / AIDS transmission through quality targeted intervention (TI) programme. There is a need to ensure standardize systems and procedures in the intervention for which specify operational guidelines have been developed on NGO / CBO. The Target groups are as follows - Men having Sex with Men (MSM) - Female Sex Workers (FSW) - Injecting Drug Users (IDU) - Migrants and Truckers In order to ensure quality of intervention focused capacity building is required.

Therefore under NACPIII there will be a major focus on providing uniform and quality Training to different categories of staff working with NGOs/CBOs, Peer Educators and Volunteers in TI Project. NACO plans to develop a sustainable and Institutionalized STRC to ensure quality Capacity building of TI Partners. Hence NACO has identified 21 STRCs in our Country covering all the States and Union Territories. Our Institute is one among them and covering Tamilnadu, Chennai corporation and Puducherry States.

Therefore under NACPIII there will be a major focus on providing uniform and quality Training to different categories of staff working with NGOs/CBOs, Peer Educators and Volunteers in TI Project. NACO plans to develop a sustainable and Institutionalized STRC to ensure quality Capacity building of TI Partners. Hence NACO has identified 21 STRCs in our Country covering all the States and Union Territories. Our Institute is one among them and covering Tamilnadu, Chennai corporation and Puducherry States.

The Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health and Family Welfare Trust has been identified as the State Training and Resource Center for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Imparting quality training programmes to the NGO’s working on Targeted Interventions (TIs) funded by Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS), Chennai Coroporation AIDS Prevention and Control Society (CAPACS) and Puducherry State AIDS Control Society (PSACS)