Training of healthcare professionals under MITWAA (A friend) initiative

MITWAA initiative is one of the adolescents’ focussed interventions implemented in Mumbai by I-TECH India with support from MDACS and CDC India under PEPFAR. The initiative is targeted to promote holistic development including mental wellbeing of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) (10-19 years age group) through life skills approach. Two day training workshop was organised on 10th & 11th February 2022 for the healthcare professionals who will impart training to the ALHIV on life skills such as communication, interpersonal relations, decision making, critical thinking, coping mechanism and self-management skills as well as ART adherence, nutrition and sexual and reproductive health. Total 22 counsellors were trained during this workshop who are expected to reach around 1000 ALHIV.