Positive Living

Save the Children is the world’s

leading independent children’s

right organization with members

in 30 countries and programs in

more than 120 countries. Save the

Children fights for children’s rights

and delivers lasting improvements

to children’s lives in Nepal and

around the world.

© Save the Children 2014

ISBN: 8677-7-1

Photo: Bijay Gajmer

People living with HIV receive primary care at home

This family of six is among the

many receiving Community

Home Based Care (CHBC)

service implemented by Save

the Children’s Global Fund

program in Nepal. Through the

CHBC program, regular home

visits by medical attendants

have resulted in quality living

for our beneficiaries.

Community Care Centers provide quality care to people living with HIV

Community Care Centers (CCC) provide

essential health, referral and psychosocial

to those who have started Anti Retroviral

Therapy (ART)

Right to heatlh

Bisexuals, transgender, gays and lesbians are living a

dignified life because of the primary care, social and legal

support provided by the Blue Diamond Society (BDS)

under the Global Fund program.

Information is key to helping vulnerable people

Counseling services are provided in all 19

Community Care Centers (CCC). Clients receive

life saving information on HIV and AIDS, ART

adherence, managememnt of opportunistic

infections, essential refferals, prevention and care

of Sexually Transmitted Infections, safe sex and

positive prevention.

Testing for HIV save lives

HIV testing is available

throughout Nepal from

38 Voluntary Counseling

and Testing (VCT)

centers managed by Save

the Children.

People who inject drugs are at great risk of contracting blood borne infections

Save the Children provides clean needle and syringes to

injecting drug users under its harm reduction program.

People who once injected drugs are now taking methadone

Methadone maintenance program is

provided in six government hospitals, who

work very closely with Social Support

Units funded by the global fund to provide

methadone to people who inject drugs.

6,557injecting drug users now

use clean needle and

syringes and 879 are

now taking methadone.

405Female Sex Workers

have received crisis

response.

62,855total population tested for

HIV and counseled.

3,425people living with HIV have

recieved care and support

services through Community

Home Based Care.

122,140male labor migrants

have been reached

through Behavioral

Change Communication

interventions.

16,314 men who have sex with

men, male sex workers and

transgenders have been

reached through Behavioral

Change Communication

interventions.

Nepal Country OfficeAirport Gate Area, Sambhu Marg

Kathmandu, NepalGPO Box 3394

Tel: +977-1-4468130/4464803Fax: +977-1-4468132

Email: post.nepal@savethechildren.orgwww.nepal.savethechildren.net