Health Initiatives

Health Initiatives

Health Initiatives Our health initiatives aim to sensitize stakeholders on the health issues of transgender persons and enable stakeholders to provide holistic health services tailored to transgender individuals, particularly marginalized transgender individuals. Currently, our health projects include:

The Global Fund’s C-19 KP Grant

The Global Fund program C-19 KP Grant aims to sensitise stakeholders towards key populations, create awareness on TG issues like Transgender (Protection of Rights), Act 2019 with stakeholders, link the community to social entitlement and welfare schemes, empower them to build their small-scale enterprises through the formation of SHGs, and link KPs to health services (HIV/STI testing, Hep B & C testing)

Project Manthan

A first-of-its-kind project in India, Project Manthan aims to assess the mental health needs of transpersons in Delhi-NCR. The project is currently being run in collaboration with the Indian arm of The George Institute for Global Health.