To begin with:
- TSACS formed in 1999 (100% Central Sector Project)
- Total Employees : 134
- Head of Organization: Project Director
- Active in : All 8 Districts
- Financial Year : April to March
Divisions of TSACS:
- Targeted Intervention (TI)
- Information Education Communication (IEC)
- Basic Service Division (Counselling & Testing)
- Care Support & Treatment (CST)
- Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
- Blood Safety
- Human Resource & Finance
National AIDS Control Programme (NACP)
- National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) was launched in 1992 ( 28 years) as a comprehensive programme for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in India
- NACP I started in 1992
- NACP II was launched in November 1999
- NACP III was launched in July 2007
- NACP IV was launched in 2012
NACP : major areas of work
- Halting and reversing the epidemic
- Advocacy
- Prevention efforts among general population and HRG
- Integrating HIV infected with Care, Support and Treatment
- Strengthening District AIDS Prevention and Control Units
- Mainstreaming
National Council on AIDS
- Hon’ble Prime Minister of the Country is the Chairman of the Council
- Hon’ble Health and Family Welfare Minister is the vice Chairman of the Council
- 29Hon’ble Ministers of the Country are Honorable Members
- Hon’ble 7 Chief Ministers are also Honorable Members
Parliamentary Forum
- The Lok Sabha Secretariat of the Country formed a Forum named “Millennium Development Goals” in 2013
- The Forum had few goals including the one to combat HIV/AIDS in the Country
HIV and AIDS Act 2017
- The Human Immune Deficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control ), Act, 2017. Gazette was passed on 20th April 2017
- Each State will prepare the Rules based on the Act - Tripura prepared the draft Rule named “The Tripura Human Immune- Deficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (ombudsman and Pseudonymisation) Rules, 2020” as per direction & vetted by Law Department, Govt. of Tripura. The draft rule is yet to be approved by the Cabinet