ACET Nireekshana India, led by Doctors Sujai and Lavanya Suneetha, has provided compassionate care and medical treatment to over 3000 people and their families, living with HIV and AIDS, in and around Hyderabad in India.

India has a rapidly growing HIV and AIDS problem, with an estimated 1 million people infected or affected.  Many of the poorest struggle to get access to government health programmes and ACET Nireekshana offers diagnosis, counselling, medicines and nutrition. 

From a clinic held in the Suneethas' front room, the work has expanded rapidly to a specialist clinic as well as satellite treatment and care centres in and around Hyderabad, usually in the poorest areas.

ACET Nireekshana also has a growing education programme, working to train members of many other organisations, church leaders, and project workers, as well as HIV prevention in schools and colleges.

ACET Thailand began in 1990, founded by Alan and Maelynn Ellard who had been working in Thailand for many decades previously. 

Over the years, ACET Thailand has trained hundreds of community workers, including many international visitors, delivered HIV prevention programmes in schools, colleges and youth projects, and provided community care teams in Bangkok and rural areas, caring for many people in their own homes who were sick or dying because of HIV.

More recently, Alan and Maelynn and their team have been tirelessly working to support House of Grace, a residential facility for 60 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children, some of whose mothers are sick with HIV and live in the community.

ACET Kazakhstan mobilises church volunteers to reach out to high risk groups in their local communities, including injecting drug users and commercial sex workers, in a project supported by Global Fund. 

Work is also developing to bring the prevention message to young people in schools. Students learn about HIV, AIDS, sexual health, pregnancy, risk reduction, drug addiction and the needs of people living with HIV in the community, AIDS orphans and so on.

ACET Tajikistan has been set up to tackle the growing problem of HIV in Tajikistan. A number of medical doctors have committed to ACET work as trainers and are focusing on encouraging local churches to take the growing problem of HIV seriously in their congregations and communities.  Pastor training and work in Christian youth camps has developed and discussions about appropriate work in schools has begun. 

ACET Kyrgyzstan, led by Kostya, a trained youth pastor working in partnership with local organisation "SUYUU-BULAGY", is combating a rapid rise in HIV infections, mainly contracted through drug abuse. 

Working through local churches, ACET has a rapidly growing programme in response.

ACET Uzbekistan offers training and education about HIV and AIDS through local church leaders, who are becoming increasingly conscious of the rising numbers in their congregations and communities with HIV and AIDS. This is a new and small programme, where trainers and volunteers often have to travel vast distances to reach and work with church communities and leaders.  Currently some 6,000 young people are offered prevention messages each year. A small care project for HIV positive mothers and their babies has also begun in a local hospital.