Dr. Ashok Rau shares the programs of Freedom Foundation

The foundation focuses on substance abuse like drug addiction; alcoholism and HIV/AIDS.
Our programs include anything and everything that you can think of within the wide spectrum of our focus (drug addiction; alcoholism and HIV/AIDS). Freedom does its works with full intensity. We have six different units with in a range of 2 km from our Head office (Bangalore).

There are 48 physical units around primary 5 states in India- Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and now in Maharashtra also.

Each unit has a prime purpose. In case of our care and support unit, we take care of abandoned HIV+ children, adults and women (HIV+) in various stage of their illness. In high diagnostics facilities, where we specialize diagnostics process for people who need it, like HIV+ or those living with AIDS.

We run a very huge ART (Anti-retroviral drugs) program. In the year 2000, we had initiated an ART roll out. Much before anybody thought of roll out on ART. There are a huge number of clients whom we give these drugs to. These drugs enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS.

As a part of the binary intervention, which Freedom Foundation initiated six years back run a huge program of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission. Each project for example, the one in Bangalore, Hyderabad reaches out to 30,000 women every year.
We have over a period of time catered to such vast clients. We have documents which shows that we directly reach out to about 75, 000 people every month. This includes men, women and children. Our indirect reach is probably double the numbers.