The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) of India defines the involvement of PLHIV and affected communities as a specific expression of the right to active, free and meaningful participation in all aspects of the HIV/AIDS response.
The application of the principle of GIPA is an organic and ongoing process that demands different levels of readiness. This policy aims to effectively ensure the meaningful involvement of PLHIV in order to reduce the spread of HIV and mitigate its impact in India.

Guiding Principles:

NACP recognizes that involving PLHIV and affected communities in the HIV/AIDS response makes a powerful contribution to the pandemic by enabling individuals and communities to draw on their life experiences; thus contributing to reducing stigma and discrimination and to increasing the effectiveness and appropriateness of the HIV/AIDS response.

The advantages of GIPA at the policy level flow beyond the immediate concerns of prevention, care, and treatment issues and can improve the capacity of various sectors, such as education and employment, to respond to HIV/AIDS.

To effectively ensure that PLHIV and affected communities are actively involved in responding to the pandemic, it is essential that PLHIV contribute to a diverse range of roles that include policy development, advocacy, activism, health care service, education, awareness generation, prevention, leading community, public services, as may be appropriate applicable in a given situation and setting.