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1. Positive Living

2. 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
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Photo: Bijay Gajmer

4. People living with HIV receive
primary care at home

5. 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.

6. Community Care Centers
provide quality care to
people living with HIV

7. Community Care Centers (CCC) provide
essential health, referral and psychosocial
to those who have started Anti Retroviral
Therapy (ART)

8. Right to heatlh

9. 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.

10. Information is key to
helping vulnerable
people

11. 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 SexuallyTransmitted Infections, safe sex and
positive prevention.

12. Testing for HIV save lives

13. HIV testing is available
throughout Nepal from
38Voluntary Counseling
andTesting (VCT)
centers managed by Save
the Children.

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

15. Save the Children provides clean needle and syringes to
injecting drug users under its harm reduction program.

16. People who once injected drugs
are now taking methadone

17. 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.

18. 6,557
injecting drug users now
use clean needle and
syringes and 879 are
now taking methadone.
405
Female Sex Workers
have received crisis
response.
62,855
total population tested for
HIV and counseled.

19. 3,425
people living with HIV have
recieved care and support
services through Community
Home Based Care.
122,140
male 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.

20. Nepal Country Office
Airport Gate Area, Sambhu Marg
Kathmandu, Nepal
GPO Box 3394
Tel: +977-1-4468130/4464803
Fax: +977-1-4468132
Email: post.nepal@savethechildren.org
www.nepal.savethechildren.net