{"id":5427,"date":"2019-08-27T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:21:25","slug":"mou-signed-between-department-of-social-justice-empowerment-and-national-aids-control-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/mou-signed-between-department-of-social-justice-empowerment-and-national-aids-control-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"MoU Signed between Department of Social Justice &#038; Empowerment and National AIDS Control Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Department of Social Justice, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The MoU was signed by Additional Secretary, DoSJ&amp;E Ms. Upma Srivastava and Special Secretary &amp; Director General (NACO &amp; RNTCP), MoH&amp;FW Shri Sanjeev Kumarin the presence of Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan. Minister of State for SJ&amp;E Shri Ratan Lal Kataria and Minister of State for H&amp;FW Shri Ashwini Kumar Chaubey. Secretary, M\/o SJ&amp;E Smt. Neelam Sawhney and Secretary, M\/o H&amp;FW Smt. Preeti Sudan were also present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Salient points of MoU\nare as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inclusion of target groups of NACO and National Action Plan\nfor Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) in the programmes of NAPDDR &amp; NACO for\nawareness generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enhanced linkages and effective co-ordination between\nInjecting Drug Users Targeted Intervention (IDUs-TI) supported by NACO and\nIntegrated rehabilitation center for Addicts (IRCAs) supported by DSJE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create awareness and educate people about the ill-effects of\ndrugs abuse on the individual, family, workplace and the society at large and\nreduce stigmatization of and discrimination against, groups and individuals\ndependent on drugs in order to integrate them back into the society;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Develop human resources and build capacity in order to\nstrengthen the service delivery mechanisms for drug addiction treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developing welfare scheme aiming at social inclusion and\nempowerment of Transgender which face extreme social alienation enhancing their\nvulnerability to HIV and drug abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address risk of HIV transmission among all substance users\nthrough preventive risk reduction messaging on HIV\/STI and linkages with\nIntegrated Testing and Counseling Centre (ICTC) and other services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working towards empowerment of discriminated and vulnerable\ngroups like victims of HIV\/AIDS, victims of drug abuse, female sex workers,\nPersons engaged in Begging and transgender by nurturing a supportive and\ncongenial environment which promotes human development by safeguarding human\nrights of all, providing social protection and rendering psycho-social care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Include female sex workers and transgender as target group for social defence and drug addicts as a target group for National AIDS Control Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reduced incidence of social stigma and discrimination again\nvictims of drug abuse and Children and People Living with HIV\/AIDS through\nprogramme education setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Department of Social Justice, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The MoU was signed by Additional Secretary, DoSJ&amp;E Ms. Upma Srivastava and Special Secretary &amp; Director General (NACO &amp; RNTCP), MoH&amp;FW Shri Sanjeev Kumarin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-national-aids-control-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}