South Asia Region
The Nossal Institute for Global Health now encompasses the programs and activities of the Australian International Health Institute, which has been active in South Asia for more than 25 years. The Nossal institute's approach is to engage with national partners to ensure that strategies to address health and development challenges are locally owned and appropriate to the local context. Funding agencies and partners hat support the work of the Institute include AusAID, DFID, UNODC, UNAIDS, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and local and international NGOs.
The Nossal Institute's continued commitment and engagement with India and national partners is reflected through agreements with the Public Health Foundation of India, the Emmanuel Health Association, MAMTA Health Insurance for the Mother and Child and the Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Maharashtra. The Nossal Institute has recently registered as a trust in India and has a small office in New Delhi.
Over the past 50 years, substantial health gains in South Asia have included increased life expectancy, and reduced infant mortality and fertility rates. However, the persistence of communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as the emergence of non communicable diseases represent challenged to health and well being.
Current Projects
- Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health: Investment Case for Scaling up Equitable Progress towards MDGs 4 and 5
- UNAIDS Technical Advisory Group, South Asia
- Overcoming Stigma and Discrimination in Manipur and Nagaland
- Elucidating district-specific patterns of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in two districts of Nagaland and Manipur (2009)
- Documentation of Good Practices on Working with Children Affected and Infected with HIV/AIDS in Four States of India (2008-09)
- Reaching Everyone: Strengthening Public Health Education (Public Sector Linkage Program)
- Documenting HIV Prevention Learning and Impact in Nagaland and Manipur
- Organised Response for Comprehensive HIV Interventions in Districts of Manipur and Nagaland (ORCHID)
- Developing a mental health literacy training package
- Uttarakhand Cluster of Community Health Programs
Past Projects
- Documentation of Good Practices on Working with Children Affected and Infected with HIV/AIDS in Four States of India (2008-09)
- Elucidating district-specific patterns of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in two districts of Nagaland and Manipur (2009)
- Pathways to sex work for women in Nagaland - implications for HIV prevention
- School-Based Sexuality Education Research Project in Harayana
- India Disability Training
- HIV/AIDS and Sex work
- Assessing mental health literacy in a rural area of Maharashtra, India
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) Participatory interventions to improve mental health as a strategy for HIV prevention among vulnerable women
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) My First Time: Initiation into Injecting Drug Use
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) We are at risk too - Fostering Disability-Inclusive HIV/AIDS programs
- Drug Substitution Project Monitoring and Evaluation: Strengthening NGO response to HIV/AIDS
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI)
- Evaluation of Immunisation Coordination Committee (ICC) in the GAVI eligible countries of WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO) and providing guidance and support for the conduct of a Health System Support (HSS) workshop
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