India 2017 Country Operational Plan Strategic Direction Summary

The goal of PEPFAR India's Country Operational Plan (COP 2017) is to catalyze progress towards epidemic control in India, through the demonstration of scalable models for an effective response. PEPFAR continues to partner with the Government of India (GOI) to achieve epidemic control through technical assistance (TA) to the GOI, particularly aimed at identifying and demonstrating high-impact interventions to reach, test, treat, and retain key populations (KPs), which include men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW), people who inject drugs (PWID) and transgender (TG) in geographic areas with the greatest burden of HIV, strengthening laboratory systems and processes, and improving the quality, availability, and use of strategic information.