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We're now helping 2500 people by adding sex education, drug addiction and HIV awareness to the cancer diagnosis and health awareness through self-examination that Dr Manda Mune and her team run in eight Pune slums and a tribal village. Sex education is offered through residential camps for school and college students as well as drop outs in the community.

Year 1 budget & evaluation and Year 2 project proposal (pdf 34KB)

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Manda Mune, health talk at Burmasheel Camp, Pune

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Over 40 Women's Health, Pune, India

BODHI increases funding to 60,500 Indian rupees for per annum for two years

Dr Manda Mune and her team will visit the 226 Thakar women in Thakarwadi in the mountains outside Pune. Dr Mune says of alcoholism in the village and in the slums, ‘We want to provide information about alcohol. Many men are addicted to alcohol, and some woman. When men are addicted women suffer. It is very big problem in slums. Men die earlier because of alcohol and then women are the breadwinners. They have many responsibilities, of home and children, so we want to raise awareness among all the men as well as the women. Also, we will show them some films about the side effects of tobacco and arrange meetings with the addiction counsellors in another area.

Homemade alcohol

’Tribal women drink alcohol made at home,’ Dr Mune continues. ‘Their husbands also drink alcohol and eat tobacco. We will do some camps for them in slums. We will send some to live in clinics for three months. When they return from clinics they are in touch with us and are followed up by that clinic. they will not return to addiction. There are some examples of people who have succeeded after the treatment and not returned to alcoholism.

 

 

 

Dr Pradnya Kulkarni giving health talk in Pune slum

Photos Dr Manda Mune

‘In each house, 2-3 people are addicted. The man drinks and beats his wife and children and takes away money earned by wife and other members to drink more. He does no work. These people are addicted to country alcohol. These people don't talk about drugs openly since use of drugs is illegal in India and strong police action is taken against those found guilty.’

Ancient tribal people

‘The Thakar Samaj have been a tribal people from since ancient times,’ Dr Mune writes. ‘They live in huts in very remote places because of their race, religion and tribal customs. The men and women work in the fields of others. Women also make money from the milk of goats and cows. The women care for the house and do other traditional women’s work, and are mostly neglected by the men. They are very poor and cannot afford doctors. As in other poor, remote tribal communities anaemia, venereal diseases, fungal Infections & pelvic inflammatory diseases are very common among the women.’

More (pdf 560KB)

 

 

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