NGOs in Maharashtra

MAHARASHTRA

Aasha Mahila Samstha Address: Gaurabai Clinic (Dawakhana), 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Nagpada Junction, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Phone: 0-98206 00350 Email: seemashroff@vsnl.com Contact person: Seema Shroff Profile: Works with women in sex work in Kamathipura. Provides counselling and health services. Works on education, information dissemination and formation of self-help groups _________________________________________________________________

AIDS Research and Control Organisation (ARCON) Address: Skin Building, Ward No 43 A, Mumbai 400 008, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-23742193 Email: arcongov@vsnl.com , v_bhatia@hotmail.com Contact person: Dr Subhash Hira/Dr Vandana P Bhatia Profile: : The first research institute to work on the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in India. Basically a research based organisation, ARCON is mainly involved in clinical intervention _________________________________________________________________

Committed Communities Development Trust (CCDT) Address: 8, Pali Chimbal Municipal School, St Joseph Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2644 3345/2651 3908 Email: ccdtrust@bom5.vsnl.net.in Contact person: Sara D'Mello Profile: A voluntary, secular trust that works to provide marginalised communities with social relevance through development, health services, social education and community development _________________________________________________________________

Lawyer's Collective HIV/AIDS Unit Address: 7/10, Botawala Building, 2nd floor, Horniman Ciricle, Mumbai 400 023, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2267 6213/9 Email: aidlaw1@ndb.vsnl.net.in , aidslaw@vsnl.com Contact person: Vivek Divan Profile: This group of lawyers handled the first HIV litigation in India, and now has a full time legal intervention unit on HIV/AIDS _________________________________________________________________

Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) Address: Acworth Complex, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg, Wadala West, Mumbai 400 031, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2411 3097/5619 Email: sacs_maharashtra@nacoindia.org Contact person: Sanjay Sawant Profile: Government AIDS programme implementation agency at the state level _________________________________________________________________

Majlis Address: Bldg No 4, Block A/2, Golden Valley, Kalina Kurla Road, Kalina, Mumbai 400 098, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2666 2394 Email: admin@majlisbombay.org , majlis@vsnl.com Contact person: Flavia Agnes Profile: Essentially a people's forum based on the women's movement of the 1980s. Has both a legal resource centre and a cultural centre _________________________________________________________________

Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS) Address: Acworth Complex, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg, Wadala West, Mumbai 400 031, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2410 0250/2300 5175 Email: mdacs@bom5.vsnl.net.in Contact person: Alka Gogate/Shantha Shankaranarayanan Profile: Government AIDS programme implementation agency at the district level _________________________________________________________________

National AIDS Research Institute Address: Plot No. 73, Block G, MIDC Complex, Bhosari, Pune 411 026, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-20-2712 1072/1210 Email: hivnet@vsnl.com , root@icmrnari.ren.nic.in Contact person: Dr Nita Mawar Profile: Works on biomedical research on HIV/AIDS in India with an aim to compliment and strengthen the National AIDS Control Programmes _________________________________________________________________

Network of Maharashtra by People living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+) (Women's Forum) Address: S No 544, Mahatma Society, Building B/7, Dias Plot, Dholemala, Gultekadi, Pune 411 037, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-20-426 6889/0-98204 27535 Email: shabana786patel@yahoo.co.in Contact person: Shabana P Profile: A network of HIV+ persons involved in counselling, forming self-help and support groups, information dissemination, advocacy, legal support and referral services _________________________________________________________________

Population Services International (PSI) Address: 149/151, Curson Das Natha, Trust Building, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road, Prarthana Samaj, Mumbai 400 004, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2389 4375/2387 0883 Email: shilpa@psi.org.in Contact person: Dianne Cross Profile: Uses social marketing to deliver health products, services and information that enable low-income and other vulnerable people to lead healthier lives _________________________________________________________________

Prerna Address: Kamathipura Municipal School, 7th Lane, Shuklaji Street, Kamathipura, Bombay, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2570 0128/0684 Email: pppatkar@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in Contact person: Priti Patkar Profile: Works to prevent commercial sexual exploitation of minors and young women and to eliminate second generation trafficking of children _________________________________________________________________

Special Observation Home Address: Sion-Trombay Road, Deonar, Bombay, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2556 5286 Email: surami@vsnl.net Contact person: Neeru Sharma Profile: Awaited _________________________________________________________________

St Catherine's Home Address: Veerabhai Desai Road, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2676 2312/6906/2312 Email: stcath@bol.net.in Contact person: Sister Cecile Profile: Provides shelter and care services for children with HIV, unwed mothers and trafficked women _________________________________________________________________

Stree Adhar Kendra Address: 3/48 Adarsh Nagar, Prabha Devi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Phone: 91-22-2422 5748/7941 Email: Awaited Contact person: Neelam Gorhe Profile: Awaited _________________________________________________________________

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Address: Post Box No. 8313, Sion-Trombay Road, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088 Phone: 91-22-2556 3290/1/2/3/4/5/6 Email: sbharat@tiss.edu , vimla@tiss.edu Contact person: Shalini Bharat, family studies unit; Vimla V Nadkarni, department of medical and psychiatric social work Profile: Academic institution involved in wide-ranging research on various aspects of HIV/AIDS and how it impacts women