sankalp :
Sankalp is a Sanskrit word which means ?determination?. This project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began in December 2003, and is implemented through a consortium of partner non-governmental and community-based organisations. It now covers 13 districts in Karnataka.

Sankalp is a targeted HIV prevention project focusing on vulnerable and at-risk populations, including men and women in sex work, clients of sex workers, MSM and transgender populations.

Sankalp?s goal is to reduce HIV transmission by promoting the consistent usage of condoms. reduction of risk behaviour and timely treatment of sexually transmitted infections. The project also targets important social issues, including reducing stigma and discrimination against sex workers, MSM and transgender populations, and PLIIIV, mitigating violence and harassment, and facilitating access to social entitlements. Sankalp also facilitates formation of community institutions at the district level.

Avahan, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in India also funds ‘Corridors’. The Corridors project is focused on the prevention of HIV in the migrant population of Northern Karnataka and Southern Maharashtra. The overall project goal of the Corridors Project is to reduce the transmission of STI and HIV in the context of sex work in three districts of northern Karnataka (Bijapur, Bagalkot and Belgaum); three districts of southern Maharashtra (Sangli, Sholapur and Satara); and two large urban centres of Maharashtra (Mumbai and Pune) through local implementing partners of Avahan, with a specific focus on reducing the vulnerability of female sex workers who migrate along this geographic corridor which are major destination places for Karnataka migrants.