Restoring Health, Rebuilding Trust – Sunita’s Journey

When Sunita first attended an AIDENT health camp in her village, she didn’t know what Hepatitis meant. Like many women in her community, she had never visited a health center, never been screened, and had learned to live with fatigue and pain as “part of life.”

That day marked a change not just for her, but for hundreds of women like her. AIDENT’s health outreach program had arrived in her district under Project MAHI, bridging the gap between government health schemes and those who had long been left behind. Through door-to-door screenings, awareness drives, and linkages to local PHCs, women like Sunita began to access diagnosis and treatment for the first time.

Today, Sunita is a community volunteer. She helps other women understand how to stay healthy, supporting screening camps for HIV, Hepatitis B, and C. “Earlier, we didn’t even talk about these things. Now, we know what to ask for,” she says with pride.

Across states, AIDENT has reached over 1.5 million people, ensuring access to care, awareness, and dignity. From reproductive health to tobacco control, and from street plays to counselling, the message remains the same health is not a privilege, it’s a right.
What began as a camp in one village has grown into a movement of women leading their own healing.