"It's not about anything else, it's about making a difference in the lives of people walking through your doors."
Dr. Sunil Solomon
Chairman & Managing Trustee
YRGCARE has multiple projects and programs that are currently active, with their presence spread in over 900 sites across India. Each of these projects are funded through domestic and/or international grants from various foundations, universities, public health initiatives, CSR initiatives, and more. Most of our projects are in coordination with the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) of India, and our efforts are directed towards achieving HIV epidemic control, in addition to services for other infectious diseases like COVID-19, Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis.
ACCELERATE
FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS
AND MALARIA
Clinic
Rainbow
Immunization Transformation
and Equity
Fund
YRGCARE's ‘ACCELERATE’ project, to provide Technical Assistance (TA) to the national, state, and district HIV/AIDS programs of India, under the directives of PEPFAR, support of USAID, and collaboration with NACO. Project ACCELERATE supports NACO in addressing gaps in existing programming, with overall focus on vulnerable populations and High-Risk groups. The program is concentrated on the entire HIV cascade in high burden PEPFAR cluster districts in the states of Maharashtra (Thane, Pune) and Telangana (Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Mahbubnagar, Karimnagar, Nalgonda), and implements OVC activities in all 33 PEPFAR cluster districts in India across the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram.
YRGCARE partners with Plan India under the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria program, in collaboration with NACO, to accelerate the national response towards achieving the fast-track 95-95-95 targets among key PLHIV populations (PWID / PWUD / Bridge Populations), through three components. They include - Prison & Other Closed Setting Interventions, One-Stop Centres, and Community System Strengthening initiatives. YRGCARE is the leading partner in supporting 14 SACS in the execution of the Community System Strengthening initiatives by NACO.
The Sabrang Clinic initiative is a groundbreaking innovation aimed at providing comprehensive healthcare services to attend to the distinct health requirements of transgender individuals in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It aims to embrace a wider spectrum of healthcare services that go beyond addressing solely HIV-related concerns. Project activities include bolstering peer outreach efforts to identify gaps in the HIV continuum of care, estimating the size and distribution of key populations for informative quality improvement initiatives, and implementing and evaluating prevention and differentiated ART delivery strategies. Guided by evidence-based practices, the project strives to enhance the HIV cascade, working towards achieving the 95-95-95 targets.
Camp Rainbow is a YRGCARE project in partnership with SeriousFun Children’s Network, for children living with HIV and chronic illnesses. It is a psychosocial intervention delivered through the vehicle of camp, providing a unique opportunity for CLHIV and their families to participate in HIV education and traditional camp activities. They are aimed at enhancing the campers' adherence to treatment, medication, and nutrition to improve their quality of life while also focusing on some serious fun, all free of charge. Our Camps are usually Day Camps and Residential Camps, hospital based programs, and camps for in-patient care children with HIV and Cancer, together with their families.
YRGCARE is an implementing partner of John Snow India Pvt. Ltd. under the USAID Project MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation & Equity. We facilitate COVID-19 vaccines and precautionary doses to key vulnerable populations in 5 districts of Maharashtra, India, through micro-planning for vaccine administration, training and supervising healthcare staff, increasing demand for vaccinations, and strengthening community partnerships. YRGCARE teams have facilitated 5 lakh+ COVID-19 vaccines and precautionary doses to key populations (December, 2022).
Right from the time she started working, Dr Suniti Solomon (late) funded the education of the children of her maids, cook, gardener, and others in need who worked in her institution. Education was dear to her heart, as was the welfare of women who had to fight for their rights in what is very much still a patriarchal society. Today, there are many bright young girls like Dr Suniti Solomon, who are eager to become doctors and who have the potential to achieve great things the way Dr Solomon did. But they are hampered by lack of funds to pay the costs of going through medical college. The Suniti Solomon Educational Fund’s mission is to identify such talented young women who have the scholastic credentials and show professional promise, but lack the money that is required for a medical education. The number of women we would help depends on the funds collected. The candidates would be rigorously screened to meet our criteria. At present, our aim is to assist women who have been admitted to various medical colleges in Chennai.
For more information on our projects, or to collaborate with us, please write to info@yrgcare.org