GUWAHATI, Feb 24: A three-day regional workshop under the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP) will be held here from Wednesday.
Deliberations during the workshop will focus on reviewing the implementation of NACP in the seven North Eastern States — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura — and will cover 60 identified high-priority districts in the region.
The workshop will be the first of a series of 11 regional workshops as part of intensified efforts to achieve the targets under NACP by December 2027.
The workshop will bring together senior leadership and programme functionaries, including principal secretaries, secretaries and commissioner-cum-secretaries (health), mission directors of the National Health Mission (NHM), and project directors of the State AIDS Control Societies (SACS) from the participating states.
Launched in 1992 as a central sector scheme, the National AIDS and STD Control Programme is currently in its fifth phase (2021–26).
The programme aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 of the United Nations, which calls for ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
