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Project ACCELERATE identifies and engages vulnerable populations, including key populations, and provides preventive and treatment services across the HIV care continuum.

Camp Rainbow is a psychosocial intervention delivered through the vehicle of camps for children and families living with HIV and other serious illnesses.

YRGCARE is a non-profit based in Chennai, established in 1993 by Suniti Solomon, credited with documenting the first case of HIV in India (1986). Since inception, YRGCARE focuses on offering non-stigmatising, high quality services to those with or at risk for HIV. The organisation has a team of over 1500 people involved in various program deliveries, multiple research implementations, core lab sciences, and treatment trials, across India offering quality care and diagnostic inputs.

focus areas

Counselling

YRGCARE offers access to pre and post test HIV counselling that helps people better perceive their risks, assess and prevent risk behaviour, harm reduction, and services for timely screening/testing. Centred on a three-pronged approach, YRGCARE promotes counselling for individuals, communities, and populations - thereby ensuring better understanding, planning, and action.

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Testing

YRGCARE is uniquely poised as a quality control laboratory with its service and research operations, and expertise both on clinic / community-based testing approaches for several communicable diseases which have been of pandemic or epidemic potentialities in India; viz HIV and associated infections like TB, Hepatitis B & C, COVID19, and more.

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Care & Treatment

Early diagnosis and treatment reduces disease progression and prevents transmission with viral suppression. YRGCARE has been one of the first to respond to the clinical care needs of people living with HIV, other associated infections like TB, Hepatitis B & C and STIs, preventing mother to child transmission through effective protocols and recently COVID-19, through outpatient care, inpatient care, and a subsidised pharmacy to ensure affordable medications for all; often a key barrier in the patient’s care and treatment needs.

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Prevention

A comprehensive package of prevention services that cater to the needs of the most marginalised communities, YRGCARE through its single window approaches, has been successfully running Integrated Care Center, Mitr Clinics, and Adolescent Friendly Health Services, keeping clients and their partners at the centre of those services.

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Advocacy

YRGCARE forges liaisons and linkages with local organisations at the grass root level, government and non government organisations, as well as with community led organisations. Many of its project – field level decisions are led by affected communities, thus helping to engage the community for better

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Outreach

YRGCARE’s outreach approaches are market-oriented, delivered both offline and online. The primary objective of outreach is to create an enabling environment, engage with the affected communities to create demand as well as set-up services in a unique way driven by the community.

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Training

YRGCARE’s training courses are tailored to the needs of the participants and use interactive tools with real life-learning opportunities. YRGCARE offers training for clinicians, obstetricians and gynecologists, laboratory scientists and technologists, health care workers, social workers, counselors in their respective fields relating to HIV prevention and management.

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People we serve

People Living with HIV

People Who Inject Drugs

People Who Use Drugs

Men who have Sex with Men

People who are Incarcerated

Children

Adolescents

Youth

Men & Women

Transpersons

Impact Statements

2,23,811+

lives touched till date

75+

partners from across the globe

28+

Projects and Programs currently active

900+

sites pan India

Our Founder

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Testimonials

Mukund Gosavi

Founder, Mukti Foundation, Maharashtra

"I came across Project MOMENTUM Routine Immunization by USAID and JSI India in newspapers. When I approached the YRGCARE team working with this project in Jalgaon, they offered their immediate and complete support in organising a COVID-19 vaccination camp for our people. I thank them for their efforts."

Tim Bethune

Director of Programs and Growth, SeriousFun Children’s Network

“Our partnership with YRGCARE is critical in helping SeriousFun Children’s Network carry out its mission. Over our 10+ years of camp partnership, and as Camp Rainbow expands to benefit more children and their families, the team at YRGCARE consistently prioritizes the unique needs of every participant so they can have the greatest impact possible.”

Richard Gere,

American Actor

“This has been my second visit to YRG CARE, an institution that I find to be shaping India's response to HIV/AIDS in a most comprehensive and commendable manner. I urge each and every person to contribute in whatever way possible, as a collective response to one of the greatest health challenges of our time.”