AIDS Minisrty:
PACT - Project AIDS Through Care and Training
Many victims suffer from AIDS in Chennai but more than the suffering from the disease they suffer from the rejection that they face by their family, doctors and community once it is discovered they have AIDS.

PACT (Project AIDS through Care and Training) is the name of our ministry with the purpose to reach out to HIV positive people and their children with compassion by meeting their felt needs through a holistic approach. We then aim to reconcile them to their spouse, family members, friends and relatives. Most important of all, we aim to bring them to a relationship with Jesus Christ and involvement in a local church.

PACT has been working with HIV/AIDS victims since 1997, and we have ministered to over 20,000 HIV positive people. Though many have passed away, many have given their lives to Jesus before they died.

Activities
PACT has four types of work: Visiting HIV/AIDS patients at hospitals, home based care, a home for children of AIDS patients and a hospice for HIV/AIDS women.

Hospital Visits

PACT staff have been working along with the TB Sanatorium, a government hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals treating HIV/AIDS victims in India. Patients come from different parts of India, though most are residents of the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. There are over 400 patients there getting treatment on a daily basis. PACT staff visit the patients at the hospital on a daily basis, building friendships and providing pastoral care and counseling. Everyone in these AIDS hospital wards is in need of acceptance, love, spiritual help and finances. The staff approach those who seem to be the most in need and who are without family to care for them.

• PACT staff are visiting the patients in the hospital and building friendships with them by meeting their physical needs in ways such as providing nutritious food.
• PACT staff are also involved with counseling the patients, and being ministers of peace.

Home Care

When local patients from the Chennai region are discharged, staff members will visit them once or twice a month. Support extends beyond the AIDS/HIV patients to their families as well. 

• Giving care and counsel at the home of the AIDS victim.
• Giving medical help
• Giving aid for their children's studies
• Meeting housing needs(i.e. grocery help)
• Support groups
• Pre and post test counselling.
• Counseling to the spouse and family members.
• Linking HIV positive people with other organisations.
• Conducting seminars for church volunteers.
• Networking with local organisations who are working among the HIV/AIDS victims.
• Networking with local churches for the volunteers for home care projects. 
• Holding support group meetings with home based care patients. 

Children's Home

• Providing a loving home-like enviroment for children whose parents have either contracted HIV/AIDS or have died from the disease.
• Providing education for the children who due to their HIV-positive status are unable to attend public schools.