Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 8262
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2009
Main Partner: U.S. Department of Defense
Main Partner Program: In-Support
Organizational Type: Other USG Agency
Funding Agency: USDOD
Total Funding: $400,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $400,000

HIV prevention is a priority for Cote d'Ivoire's Ministry of Defense (MoD), whose mostly young, often mobile

members face a heightened risk of infection. Building on the MoD's existing program for prevention of STIs,

including HIV/AIDS, the US Department of Defense (DoD) provides technical assistance for the revision and

implementation of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS management policy. This activity has strengthened the

partnership between the MoD and the USG and is helping to mobilize the Ivorian armed forces (MoD,

police, customs, Water & Forests forces) and the Forces Armées/Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) for HIV

prevention activities, policy development, and aggressive management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

With FY09 funding, the DoD will continue to provide technical assistance for the development, monitoring,

and evaluation of PEPFAR-supported HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities targeting the military in

Cote d'Ivoire. At least 20 key Ivoirian armed forces commanders and staff members will be trained in HIV

stigma reduction, and two commander's conferences will be held to explain the latest MoD HIV/AIDS policy

and stigma reduction program. Altogether, at least 1,000 people will be reached through Other Prevention

outreach, and at least 100 people will be trained to provide such outreach.

PEPFAR funding will continue to support a DoD coordinator position whose broad responsibilities include

management, coordination, and support of PEPFAR-supported activities targeting the military, in

collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Ministry of the Fight Against AIDS (MLS), and PEPFAR

implementing partners. These funds will cover costs for travel, training, workshops, and equipment. Support

for the coordinator will also come from the Defense Attaché, CDC, and DoD headquarters.

FY09 funding will also support the training of military physicians. The objective of the program is to develop

human capacity and strengthen the ability of the armed forces to treat the military population, their families,

and nearby communities by training key military clinical physicians, using a training-of-trainers approach, in

state-of-the-art HIV prevention, diagnosis, clinical management, and treatment, with the expectation that

they will transfer information into operational use throughout the country. The program emphasizes

treatment of opportunistic infections, provision of antiretroviral therapy, prevention and clinical management

of HIV, epidemiologic surveillance, and clinical laboratory diagnosis. Five Ivoirian physicians are being

trained through this program with FY08 funding, and two more will be trained with FY09 funding.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

Military Populations

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $130,000

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.03:

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $130,000
Human Resources for Health $130,000