Ashar Alo Society

AAS is the pioneer and largest peer support group of PLHIV as well as national level NGO by and for PLHIV, works toward establishing rights, care, support, empowerment, and greater & meaningful involvement of people infected and affected by HIV since 1998.

. As a PLHIV organization AAS has established strong access to the different ministries and other civil society stakeholders with sound working relationship. AAS has proven track record of high level competency to sensitize and mobilize policy makers and potential authorities through evidence based advocacy to be more proactive on the HIV AIDS issues in creating enabling environment for people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS in Bangladesh.

• Bringing PLHIV under program coverage through VCT and networking
• Bringing children affected by AIDS (CABA) under program coverage
• Creating awareness to remove barriers, stigma and discrimination about HIV and AIDS through advocacy initiatives and community programs.
• Counseling and psychosocial support to the infected & affected people as well as Children affected by AIDS (CABA)
• Provide treatment for OIs management and ART support for PLHIV.
• Develop & distribute IEC & BCC materials
• Provide Training to the PLHIV and affected people about care giving, leadership, advocacy, peer education, positive living, health & nutrition.
• Provide training to the Health Care providers on ART/OIs management and other relevant issues.
• Empowering PLHIV economically by providing vocational training and income generating activities with grant money.
• Ensure and support the greater involvement of PLHIV in policy & implementation level.
• Establish and strengthen linkage with government’s agencies, UN Agencies and national organizations to enable better delivery of services for PLHIV and CABA.
• Conduct advocacy meetings with relevant stakeholders e.g. GO-NGO Policy makers, legal support providers, media, development partners, HCP.
• TB-HIV co-infection management
• Conduct research and study on various issues like “Treatment Access of PLHIV”, “CABA Mapping”, “Size Estimation of PLHIV”, “Baseline Survey of CABA”.