The Humsafar Trust

To extend its reach, it mentors other organisations in the same field of work. With years of experience behind it, the Trust provides guidance and direction to community-based organisations. Partnering with MAC AIDS FUND, it provides ongoing support for HIV interventions which are specifically tailored to the LGBTQ community.

The Trust is actively involved in presenting the opinions of the LGBTQ community to the general public and sensitizing them through literary media like plays, films, workshops, community mobilization efforts, media and corporate engagement and fighting for the rights of the community.

The Trust promotes safe sexual behaviour amongst the LGBTQ community and works with the goal to reduce the occurrence of HIV. It works to improve their access to healthcare facilities and reduce the stigma attached to the community. It runs three programmes Project Aarambh, Project Dostana and Project Yarana, all with the aim of increasing check-ups and controlling the spread of HIV.

Research forms an integral part of the Trust’s work. Its studies have played an important role in informing, designing and guiding interventions pertaining to the HIV related risk behaviours of men having sex with men (MSM). It has conducted research to study the relationship between clinical and behavioural data to find out the speed of the spread of the HIV virus.

The Humsafar Trust is the first community-based organisation that has set up its own Institutional Review Board collaborating with the National Institute of Health(NIH), with a Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) certification.