Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS) and Lakshadweep AIDS Control Society (LACS) with the support of National AIDS control Organization (NACO) has set up the first STRC (State Training and Resource Center) in the country.

National AIDS Control Programme Phase III (NACP III – a Government of India, Ministry of Health programme) is focused on saturation of coverage of core and bridge population through quality targeted intervention (TI) programme to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

In order to ensure quality of intervention, focused capacity building is required. Therefore, under NACP III, major focus is on providing uniform, quality training to different categories of staff working with NGOs/CBOs, peer educators & volunteers in targeted intervention projects. In this line, as part of the NACO guideline and support Kerala a sustainable and institutionalized State Training and Resource Center (STRC) to ensure quality capacity building of TI partners has been developed.

The institutional platform for STRC – Kerala & Lakshadweep provided by SOMA (www.somaindia.org) and KILA (www.kilaonline.org).