Since October 2006, SAATHII has been providing technical, administrative and logistical support for the PMTCT consortium funded by the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation in India. This is a continuation of previous work by SAATHII's founder Dr. Sai Subhasree Raghavan, who has served as Director for the PMTCT consortium since its inception in 2002-2003.

The EGPAF PMTCT program is India's largest Private-NGO program, and the second largest national PMTCT program in India. Each grantee works with 4-25 sites each, making a total of 87 sites in hospital and NGO settings. The implementing partners in the consortium are:

• ASHA, Karnataka
• Bapuji Child Health Institute, Karnataka
• Father Muller Hospital, Karnataka
• Asha Kirana Charitable Trust, Karnataka
• SPYM, Karnataka
• Freedom Foundation, Karnataka
• Freedom Foundation, Andhra Pradesh
• PRAYAS, Maharashtra
• Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University, Tamil Nadu

Some of the outputs of the program to date are given below:

For more information please contact Dr. Raghavan at subhasree_raghavan@yahoo.com

This page was last updated on February 9, 2007