Strategies of Nongovernmental Organisations for Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse: The Case of Nagaland, India

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the involvement and contribution of NGOs in health and allied sector in Nagaland, India. In this study, 45 identified NGOs of Nagaland were considered as respondents. The specific area of development i.e., health and allied issues (viz., health care, HIV/ AIDS control, and drug addiction problem, etc.) were included. Similarly, they were asked to select the tools and techniques (extension activity/ies) that were used by their organisation for implementation of development work in health and allied sector. Further, to identify the successful achievement and reason(s) for achievement in health and allied sector, an open-ended question was put to the respondents of NGOs for most successful development work in health sector conducted by them and also to mention the reasons for success. The study reveals that 58 and 71 per cent each of NGOs were involved in HIV/AIDS control and health care, respectively, whereas 51 per cent in addressing the drug addiction problems. Awareness, training and free medicine distributions are the most preferred extension activities to be performed in health and allied sector. In case of HIV/AIDS control and drug addiction, cluster of extension activities were included in each respect and employment of HIV +ve in different health projects by NGOs was the remarkable achievement.