WINGS Project (Women Initiative new Goal for Safety)
supported by India HIV/AIDS Alliance
supported by India HIV/AIDS Alliance
WINGS project is an intervention for reducing Gender-based Violence (GVB)/Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and HIV prevention among Women Who Use Drugs (WUDs) in India.
Up to the end of December 2019, 105 WUDs have been enrolled and among them 73 are injecting drug users and 32 are oral users.
Almost all of the WUDs have availed the services available under the WINGS program.
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) as well as Informal Support Group Meetings have been conducted by forming different support groups in order to identify and to address the GBV and IPV currently faced by the WUDs from the various sections of the society. To reach out to those WUDs who are still hidden through their peers so that they could also come out and seek the various services which are exclusively made for them. In addition to providing the services to the WUDs we have also conducted their second endline survey for all of the enrolled WUDs.
Services availed to the WUDs during the Project Intervention:
The services which have been availed to the enrolled WUDs under the WINGS intervention till the end of the project period are as follows:
Sl.No. |
Type of Service availed |
Number of WUDs availed |
1. |
ICTC and follow up |
108 |
2. |
TB screening |
30 |
3. |
TB treatment |
1 |
4. |
Linked to ART |
5 |
5. |
OST motivation and counselling |
77 |
6. |
Initiated OST |
11 |
7. |
STI screening and counselling |
72 |
8. |
SRH and harm reduction counselling |
60 |
9. |
Drug treatment |
10 |
10. |
Legal literacy and counselling |
50 |
11. |
Linked to Govt. Welfare schemes |
4 |
12. |
Linked to VIHAAN Care & Support |
12 |
13. |
Hepatitis C screening and testing |
25 |
14. |
Hepatitis C treatment |
7 |
15. |
Overdose managed |
5 |