Currently, 2,215 people are in ART in Nepal and 23 ART sites.

SN ART Centres
1 Teku Hospital, Teku
2 Bheri Zonal Hospital,Nepalgunj
3 Sparsha Nepal, Sanepa
4 TUTH, Maharajgunj
5 BPKIHS, Dharan
6 Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara
7 Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital, Birgunj
8 Mahakali Zonal Hospital, Mahendranagar
9 Seti Zonal Hospital, Dhangadhi
10 Doti District Hospital, Silgari
11 Lumbini Zonal Hospital, Butwal
12 Achham District Hospital, Mangalsen
13 Baglung District Hospital, Baglung
14 Koshi Zonal Hospital, Biratnagar
15 Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan
16 Mechi Zonal Hospital, Jhapa
17 Kanti Children Hospital, Maharajgunj
18 Janakpur Hospital, Janakpur
19 Palpa Mission Hospital, Palpa
20 Mid Western Regional Hospital, Surkhet
21 Dang Hospital, Dang
22 Sagarnatha Zonal Hospital, Rajbiraj
23 Maiti Nepal, Kathmandu

Access to 2nd line ARV treatment is not easily accessible in Nepal, however with the support of GYCA small grant we are able to formed 5 retro positive task force team to advocate for scale up 1st line and access to 2nd line ART in Nepal. For this advocacy campaign we task force team believe that meaningful involvement of YPLHAs can achieve its objectives. Thus, we organized two PLHAs forum and one stakeholders meeting in AIDS Alliance Nepal (AAN) meeting hall with the main objective to educate PLHAs about HIIV/AIDS treatment services and greater involvement of PLHAs in policy/decision making process. The outcomes from the PLHAs forum are:

• 20 PLHAs gains and learns update information on
HIV/AIDS treatment services and lack of treatment
services in Nepal.
• 10-15 PLHAs share their stories, challenges and gaps on
HIV/AIDS treatment services.
• PLHAs are interest to advocate for access to care,
treatment services in Nepal.
• Current stakeholders is also agree to support for this
access to care, treatment advocacy campaign.

We task force team is developing a fact HIV/AIDS treatment cartoon IEC materials with the slogan of “taking ART SO WHAT still living with HIV/AIDS”. Hope we’ll post the IEC pictures in next blog.

If you want to know any update further information about this campaign, please email me sujjaann@gmail.com


Cheers,
sujan