About Us

Dr.P.Manorama a pediatric Gastroenterologist started her clinical care services by joining the Tamilnadu medical service in the year 1981 as civil assistant surgeon and has been in Development sector /HIV/AIDS since 1993. She initiated the department of ‘ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY’ at the Institute of child health and hospital for children Egmore and worked as the in charge medical officer of the same department from May 1981 to April 1982. In 1994 she initiated the Nongovernmental organization called Community health Education Society to cater to the needs of AIDS orphans in 1994 and became its founder President.

This pediatrician is one of the few people who have a passion to work among down trodden and can speak, educate or train people on child development, child emotional support, setting up child friendly atmosphere and attitude, JJACT or HIV and AIDS. Dr. Manorama spent most of her time for children affected by AIDS. She has been the architect of the OVC Home based care program, the first of its kind in India and designed the various models of Care of children infected and affected by AIDS.

She has developed several policy documents, conducted RAAP, Situational assessment and IMPACT studies for Tamilnadu. Her RAAP study was used as a base for the development of strategies for the Phase III of NACO which started to lay emphasis on children and HIV. For TamilNadu State AIDS control society she developed the Operational Guidelines for the Tamilnadu Trust for children affected by AIDS. Her expertise has been used to review the draft national guidelines for children and HIV. She had reviewed the Gaps in training curriculum and training programs for doctors offered by leading agencies. This study she took up for INP+ and was also involved in the dissemination of the same in which she had spelled her recommendations for future programs and has had assisted PWN+ to develop a manual on treatment preparedness education for children. Her explicit and exemplary work has brought in a change in the lives of AIDS orphans by successfully promoting foster parents for HIV infected AIDS orphans and adoption services for children affected by AIDS. She as the NGO director and as the architect of OVC care was one of the key person who developed the Tamilnadu Family Care continuum program through Tamilnadu.

She has been associated with Tamilnadu government under various capacities. She is the Chairperson of Chennai Child Welfare Committee a position with powers of first class magistrate. During her tenure she has handled maximum number of child sexual abuse cases. As the chairperson of Child welfare Committee of Chennai she has taken the Rights of children as a benchmark of child development. She is also a member of the Tamilnadu State and Chennai district Prevention of child and Women Trafficking committee. She had been associated with TANSACS and has served as member of the Joint Appraisal Review Team, member of the Technical Advisory Committee, Executive committee member, as a member of “The women and AIDS” Adhoc committee and member of the Care support committee.

Dr.P.Manorama was instrumental in fighting for the rights of the Transgender. Her invitation to district administration as the chief guest to hear to the round table conference on “Problems of Transgender “ evoked the right response from the Collector of Villupuram to grant ONE CENT of Land free from Government of Tamilnadu for 20 Transgender at Villupuram. She later went on to develop a Community Based Organisation for Transgender Called “THAA” through a community participatory approach. She looked in to the social acceptance of Eunuchs, played a great role in empowering them and helped them to register the organization called “Thaa”.

Her exemplary work with women in Prostitution made the target community understand the need for a behaviour change. She has educated nearly 5000 FSW about HIV and AIDS. She brought a lot of innovative games in educating FSW on economic importance of using condom. She constituted the CBO for sex workers called “Jansi Rani Magalir Munertra Sangam”.

She is one of the 7 core members from Tamilnadu who developed the 2nd NGO report for the Child Rights Convention in the year 2007 – 2008. She is also a member of women protection committee of National Institute of Fashion Design and Hindu college Pattabiram and Life member IMA, Chennai.

She was instrument in bring out different modules on care of children, prevention education to children, on counseling etc; Dr.Manorama has attended many state, national and international conferences, has presented papers, posters at such congregations, have chaired or co-chaired different workshop both at national and international level.