South Asia Region
The Nossal Institute for Global Health now encompasses the programs and activities of the Australian International Health Institute, which has been active in South Asia for more than 25 years. The Nossal institute's approach is to engage with national partners to ensure that strategies to address health and development challenges are locally owned and appropriate to the local context. Funding agencies and partners hat support the work of the Institute include AusAID, DFID, UNODC, UNAIDS, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and local and international NGOs.
Over the past 50 years, substantial health gains in South Asia have included increased life expectancy, and reduced infant mortality and fertility rates. However, the persistence of communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as the emergence of non communicable diseases represent challenged to health and well being.
South Asia Projects
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) Participatory interventions to improve mental health as a strategy for HIV prevention among vulnerable women
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) My First Time: Initiation into Injecting Drug Use
- Research and Learning Fund (RALF) We are at risk too – Fostering Disability-Inclusive HIV/AIDS programs
- Drug Substitution Project Monitoring and Evaluation: Strengthening NGO response to HIV/AIDS
- Organised Response for Comprehensive HIV Interventions in Districts of Manipur and Nagaland (ORCHID
- Health Promotion Leadership Program – India
- Global Effectiveness Study: South Asia – the Jamkhed Health Promotion Experience: from local to global
- Government and NGO study tour from NE India, Bhutan and Nepal
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI)
- South Asia Regional HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries
- Evaluation of Immunisation Coordination Committee (ICC) in the GAVI eligible countries of WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO) and providing guidance and support for the conduct of a Health System Support (HSS) workshop
- North East India HIV/AIDS Project
- South Asia Technical Advisory Group
- Overcoming Stigma and Discrimination in Manipur and Nagaland, India
- Developing a mental health literacy training package
- School-Based Sexuality Education Research Project in Harayana
- India Disability Training
- HIV/AIDS and Sex work
- Assessing mental health literacy in a rural area of Maharashtra, India
- Uttarakhand Cluster of Community Health Programs