Sri Vijaya Puram, May 30: Andaman & Nicobar AIDS Control Society (ANACS) conducted hands-on training workshop on the EVTHS MIS Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries (SOCH) under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) from 27th to 29th May 2025 at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Dollygunj, Sri Vijaya Puram. All together 25 participants from different ICTC, ART and STI center of A & N Islands were present for this training programme.
In the key note address, Dr. Subrata Saha, Project Director, ANACS welcomed all ICTC Counsellors, Lab. Technicians and Staff Nurse from 13 ICTCs, DSRC, FI-ART Centre, Blood Bank and SACS Officials who were attended the workshop and also 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 the day to day work.
Project Director 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 the A&N Islands. He also motivated the participants for innovation approach towards elimination of HIV/AIDS by 2030. The main objective of the workshop is to obtain 100% testing, treatment and real time data of individual beneficiaries.
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.
The training started with the welcome remark by Dr. Jahanara Yasmeen, Dy. Director (IEC), Andaman SACS, extending a warm welcome to the NACO officials Shri Akshay Rana and Shri Anuj Kumar, form IT SOCH Team NACO and also all the resource person and the participants.
Shri Ganesh Debnath, Assistant Director (SI), Andaman SACS gave a brief information on the objective of the training and also explained the importance of tracking and updates in SOCH portal under Elimination of Vertical Transmission of HIV and Syphilis (EVTHS) module.
Shri Akshay Rana, (IT SOCH Team, NACO), Shri Anuj Kumar, (IT NACO)along with the master trainer from Andaman SACS-Dr. P. K. Sikdar, Assistant Director (LSD), Shri S. Senthil Nathan, Assistant Director (CST)/STI i/c, Shri Ganesh Debnath, Assistant Director (SI),imparted the three days training respectively on EVTHS MIS SOCH module, RCH portal and HMIS portal.
The workshop successfully completed with the distribution of certificates to the participants by the Project Director, ANACS. The vote of thanks was given by Shri S. Senthil Nathan, Assistant Director (CST)/STI i/c.