AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

APAC – AIDS Prevention Control Project

ART – Anti-retroviral therapy

BCC – Behaviour change and communication

CBO – Community Based Organisation

CSW – Commercial Sex Workers

DFID – Department for International Development

DSD – Denial, Stigma and Discrimination

HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus

IEC – Information, Education and Communication

KNP+ – Karnataka Network for Positive People

KSAPS – Karnataka AIDS Prevention Society

MSM – Men who have sex with men

NGO – Non-governmental Organisation

PLHA – People Living with HIV/AIDS

PMTCT – Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission

SCP – Project Steering Committee

SCM – Syndromic Case Management

SHG – Self-help group

SPAD – Society for People’s Action for Development

STI – Sexually Transmitted Infection

TOR – Terms of Reference

USAID – United States Agency for International Development

VCT – Voluntary Counselling and Testing

VMS – Vijaya Mahila Sangha