Port Blair, Sept. 29: Andaman & Nicobar AIDS Control Society (ANACS) conducted three days Capacity Building Workshop on augmenting usage of Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries (SOCH) under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) from Sept.25 to 27, 2023 at DBRAIT, Dollygunj.

Dr. Subrata Saha, Project Director, ANACS highlighted the crucial role of ICTC Counsellors and Lab Technicians in ICTC, ART, STI and TI SOCH module and the usages of the Portal in day to day work. He stressed upon to achieve 95:95:95 target set by the UNAIDS and the key role could be played by the field level staff to curve the disease in the different pockets of A&N Islands. National AIDS Control Organization has developed Integrated Information Management System - Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries (SOCH) is to create a beneficiary-centric web and mobile based system, to track and record, beneficiary service and inventory transactions to improve service delivery and beneficiary health outcome.    

Dr. Jahanara Yasmeen, Dy. Director (IEC), Dr. P. K. Sikdar, Assistant Director (LSD)/ICTC i/c, Shri S. Senthil Nathan, Assistant Director (CST)/STI i/c and Shri K Sankar Rao, Assistant Director (M&E) were the resource persons for the training. The workshop concluded with certificates distribution to the participants by the Project Director, ANACS.