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Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
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Years of mechanism: 2010 2012 2013 2015
Context
Multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP) are one of the key drivers of HIV in Botswana.
Goals and Objectives
To reduce concurrent partnerships by 50% in the coming years within the Military community.
Major Activities
PSI will work with the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) to produce IEC materials which will focus on abstinence and be faithful.
PSI partners with local community- and faith-based organizations and community theater groups. These groups are trained by PSI in behavior change communications and the basics of project management, including financial management and monitoring and evaluation. The groups also conduct small-group and one-on-one interventions in bars and shebeens, churches, households, schools, and workplaces.
This program is spearheaded by the BDF Chaplaincy Directorate. It promotes abstinence and faithfulness through spiritual counseling. PSI will develop and disseminate IEC materials, messages and banners and will facilitate edutainment events to raise awareness of the dangers of multiple concurrent partnerships.
A small part of the project will focus on risky behaviors associated with alcohol. The project focuses on educating youth about the connections between alcohol use and HIV/AIDS, with the aim of reducing unsafe sexual behaviors related to alcohol. To date the project, named "Celebrate Life," has focused on Gaborone.
Target Population
Military personnel aged 18-49 years old
Geographical Coverage
The project is implemented in all major BDF installations (Gaborone, Francistown, Selebi-Phikwe, Thebe, Phatshwa, Maun, Glenvalley, Sir Seretse Khama Barracks and Village Garrison)
Integration and Linkages
Implementation is accomplished in close collaboration with district structures, particularly the District Multi-Sectoral HIV/AIDS Committees, as well as with the MCP Campaign Coordinating Unit at the National AIDS Coordinating Agency, to ensure that the project's activities contribute to the broader national campaign, and to promote sustainability.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring is done with tools developed by PSI. These enable partner organizations to track the number of people reached, and PSI to assess the number of people trained. Additional tools assist with improving the quality of interventions. Monitoring of changes in behavior and evaluation of impact are not financed under the project, but are included in the broader national effort on MCP. They will enable measurements to be made of exposure to project interventions, changes in the rates of concurrent partnerships, and the extent to which the national campaign is impacting HIV transmission in the country.
10.P.AB19: PSI - BDF - AB - 25,000.00
The overall goal of this project is to contribute to the efforts to prevent new HIV infections in the Botswana Defence Force (BDF). The specific purpose of this project is to increase knowledge and practice of the key AB HIV prevention strategies as defined by international best practices.
To achieve program objectives, PSI is working with BDF on the development of behavior change communications with messaging targeted for the BDF based on national HIV prevention methods (such as the national OiCheke! multiple concurrent partnership campaign) to ensure education and information is specific to BDF personnel.
The success of these efforts will be measured primarily through monitoring surveys as well as the PSI TRaC approach which will enable changes in knowledge, risk perception, and behavior to be monitored over time, as well as to assess the extent to which the campaign's messages are reaching the target audience.
10.P.OP20: PSI - BDF - C/O Prevention - 100,000.00
The overall goal of this project is to contribute to the efforts to prevent new HIV infections in the Botswana Defence Force (BDF). The specific purpose of this project is to increase knowledge and practice of the key HIV prevention strategies as defined by international best practice, namely regular HIV testing, consistent condom usage, faithfulness to one partner, safe male circumcision and abstinence.
To achieve the program objectives, PSI is working with BDF on the following interventions:
a) Development of behavior change communications related to the annual "Survive and Thrive" VCT campaign. Communications will cover both mass media (via TV, billboard and posters) and interpersonal communications (via road-shows and on site interventions).
b) Support of the Camouflage Packaging research trial through development of new condom packaging and procurement of specific flavored and unflavored condoms based on BDF brief. In addition, PSI will moderate qualitative focus groups with BDF personnel before and after the quantitative study.
c) Support for the expansion of safe male circumcision within the BDF via the dissemination of information that educates and creates informed demand for the SMC procedure within the BDF as clinical services expand.
