Sri VijayaPuram, May 30:Andaman & Nicobar AIDS Control Society (ANACS) conducted a hands-on training workshop on the EVTHS MIS Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries (SOCH) under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) from 27th to 29th May 2025 at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Dollygunj, SriVijayaPuram. All together 25 participants from different ICTC, ART and STI centers of A & N Islands were present for this training programme.
In the keynote address, Dr.SubrataSaha, Project Director, ANACS welcomed all ICTC Counsellors, Lab. Technicians and Staff Nurse from 13 ICTCs, DSRC, FI-ART Centre, Blood Bank and SACS Officials who attended the workshop also highlighted the crucial role of ICTC Counsellors and Lab. Technicians in ICTC, ART, STI and TI SOCH module and the usages of the Portal in the day to day work.
The Project Director stressed upon achieving the 95:95:95 target set by the UNAIDS and the key role could be played by the field level staff to curve the disease in the different pockets of the A&N Islands. He also motivated the participants for an innovative approach towards elimination of HIV/AIDS by 2030. The main objective of the workshop is to obtain 100% testing, treatment and real time data of individual beneficiaries.
National AIDS Control Organization has developed Integrated Information Management System – Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries (SOCH) is to create a beneficiary-centric web and mobile based system, to track and record, beneficiary service and inventory transactions to improve service delivery and beneficiary health outcome.
The training started with the welcome remark by Dr.JahanaraYasmeen, Dy. Director (IEC), Andaman SACS, extending a warm welcome to the NACO officials Mr.AkshayRana and Mr.Anuj Kumar, form IT SOCH Team NACO and also all the resource persons and the participants.
Mr. Ganesh Debnath, Assistant Director (SI), Andaman SACS gave a brief information on the objective of the training and also explained the importance of tracking and updates in SOCH portal under Elimination of Vertical Transmission of HIV and Syphilis (EVTHS) module.
Mr.AkshayRana, (IT SOCH Team, NACO), Mr.Anuj Kumar, (IT NACO)along with the master trainer from Andaman SACS-Dr. P. K. Sikdar, Assistant Director (LSD), Mr. S. Senthil Nathan, Assistant Director (CST)/STI i/c, Mr. Ganesh Debnath, Assistant Director (SI),imparted the three days training respectively on EVTHS MIS SOCH module, RCH portal and HMIS portal.
The workshop successfully completed with the distribution of certificates to the participants by the Project Director, ANACS. The vote of thanks was given by Mr. S. Senthil Nathan, Assistant Director (CST)/STI i/c.
