AHANA Project is a civil Society initiative to strengthen ongoing PPTCT Services in Public Sector in selected districts in India. Plan International (India Chapter) as a principal recipient (PR) implementing it through sub recipients (SR) under Global Fund Grant during the period October 2015-December 2017. AHANA means the First Ray of the Sun. So it works with an objective to provide additional support to the NACO implemented programme i.e. Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV and successful implementation of Early Infant Diagnosis Programme.
Plan India has started implementing AHANA project in Assam through Emannual Hospital Association (EHA), SR in fourteen districts in the State. These are Baksa, Dhubri, Darrang, Dibrugarh, Dima-Hasao, Karbi-Anglong, Kokrajhar, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Goalpara, Nagaon, Morigaon, Sibasagar and Tinsukia. They help in making functional of new FICTCs, monitoring, capacity building of manpower, SIMS reporting etc.