Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 11746
Country/Region: Ethiopia
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $0

Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative

THIS IS A NEW ACTIVITY

It is a comprehensive prevention program that will receive money from MTCT, HVAB and HVOP.

This activity that will leverage $3 million from the USAID Business, Environment, Agriculture and Trade

office in a wrap around activity called the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative - Phase II Livelihoods Component

(PLI II). HIV/AIDS prevalence in Ethiopia is concentrated in urban areas. In June of 2008, The Ministry of

Health released the Single Point HIV Prevalence Estimate report which gives the latest estimate of national

HIV prevalence. That report places the adult prevalence rate at 2.2%, while the corresponding rate in urban

populations is more than 3 times higher (7.7%). This wraparound activity will allow PEPFAR Ethiopia to

access an important population that forms a bridge between the rural and urban areas in 25 towns along

Ethiopia's transportation corridors in Oromia, Afar and Somali regions.

PEPFAR recognizes that marketing opportunities for pastoralists also creates an opportunity to address

HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming with this population. Pastoralists are a difficult

population to reach given their mobile lifestyle, yet they are an essential bridge population in Ethiopia where

the HIV/AIDS prevalence is much higher in urban and peri-urban areas than in rural areas. When

pastoralists travel from rural areas to towns in order to bring their livestock to market this creates an

opportunity for public health programs to impact on HIV/AIDS epidemic as it affects the pastoralist.

Additionally, pastoralist women who migrate from rural to urban areas can be at a greater risk of HIV

infection than their urban based counterparts due to their economic vulnerability and social isolation. PLI II

will receive funding to address HIV/AIDS prevention care and support among pastoralists who travel to

markets towns in urban and peri-urban areas through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

(PEPFAR).

Ethiopia's 2005 Demographic and Health Survey found that low ANC attendance and assisted delivery

remain major impediments to progress on PMTCT targets. Additionally, young women who migrate from

rural to urban and peri-urban areas may be particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection. Being

economically vulnerable and socially isolated, such girls and young women are highly vulnerable to forced

or coerced sex, transactional sex for daily or periodic support, and negative reproductive health outcomes,

including HIV infection. Indeed, among young urban women below the age of 30, 6.8% of migrants to the

urban center are HIV-positive compared to 2.8% of young women who are native to the urban area

(Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS), 2005). Young women including OVC may be

particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection in market towns where PLI II will impact.

This PMTCT wrap around activity will address PMTCT among pastoralist women who have migrated to

urban and peri-urban areas in 25 towns along transportation corridors in Afar, Oromiya and Somali regions.

The goal of this activity is to increases total ANC enrollment through interpersonal and interactive

communications. As total ANC enrollment increases the number of unique pregnant women utilizing

PMTCT services will increase. Activities will include but not be limited to:

1) Reach pregnant women in through appropriate interpersonal and media campaigns promoting routine

ANC attendance,

2) Providing services and referrals to pastoralist young women and girls who migrated these market towns.

Services to be provided include emotional and social support from adult female mentors, HIV prevention

information, livelihoods training including financial literacy and entrepreneurship, and referrals to post-rape

counseling, health services, VCT, PMTCT, and ART. Linkages with programs addressing exploitive child

labor will be made to leverage experience and capacity.

3) Support for linkages to healthcare facilities to promote uptake of antenatal and PMTCT services and to

support follow up of infants enrolled in early infant diagnosis (EID) programs. It will continue to strengthen

the patient referral/linkage network through the development of tools, training of health professionals, and

on-site mentorship

2) Enhanced linkages between ANC, MNCH, PMTCT, family planning (FP), STI, and HIV care and

treatment clinics at the community to facility levels

3) Promotion of partner testing and a family-centered model of care where appropriate, using PMTCT as an

entry point to HIV services for mothers, children, and families

It is anticipated that the PLI II program will work with other programs working in the Afar, Oromiya and

Somali regions. For community-based programs it is expected that PLI II will link with the Transportation

Corridor Program, Civil Society, Engender Health - Prevention for At Risk Populations in High Prevalence

Urban Areas in Ethiopia, PSI - Targeted Condom Promotion and Positive Change: Children, Communities

and Care (PC3). For linkages with facilities PLI II will work with I-TECH in Afar, Columbia University in

Oromiya and Somali and MSH in Oromiya.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Table 3.3.01:

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $0

Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative (II)

THIS IS A NEW ACTIVITY

This new activity is a comprehensive prevention program that will receive money from MTCT, HVAB and

HVOP.

This is a new activity it will leverage $3 million from the USAID Business, Environment, Agriculture and

Trade office in a wrap around activity called the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative - Phase II Livelihoods

Component (PLI II). HIV/AIDS prevalence in Ethiopia is concentrated in urban areas. In June of 2008, The

Ministry of Health released the Single Point HIV Prevalence Estimate report which gives the latest estimate

of national HIV prevalence. That report places the adult prevalence rate at 2.2%, while the corresponding

rate in urban populations is more than 3 times higher (7.7%). This wraparound activity will allow PEPFAR

Ethiopia to access an important population that forms a bridge between the rural and urban areas in 25

towns along Ethiopia's transportation corridors in Oromia, Afar and Somali regions.

PEPFAR recognizes that marketing opportunities for pastoralists also creates an opportunity to address

HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming with this population. Pastoralists are a difficult

population to reach given their mobile lifestyle, yet they are an essential bridge population in Ethiopia where

the HIV/AIDS prevalence is much higher in urban and peri-urban areas than in rural areas. It is critical to the

spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia from urban areas to rural areas and when pastoralists travel

from rural areas to towns in order to bring their livestock to market this creates an opportunity for HIV/AIDS

programming to impact on HIV/AIDS epidemic as it affects the pastoralist. Additionally, pastoralist women

who migrate from rural to urban areas can be at a greater risk of HIV infection than their urban based

counterparts due to their economic vulnerability and social isolation. PLI II will receive funding to address

HIV/AIDS prevention care and support among pastoralists who travel to markets towns in urban and peri-

urban areas through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Further, young women who migrate from rural to urban and peri-urban areas may be particularly vulnerable

to HIV/AIDS infection. Being economically vulnerable and socially isolated, such girls and young women are

highly vulnerable to forced or coerced sex, transactional sex for daily or periodic support, and negative

reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection. Indeed, among young urban women below the age of

30, 6.8% of migrants to the urban center are HIV-positive compared to 2.8% of young women who are

native to the urban area (Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS), 2005). Young women

including OVC may be particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection in market towns where PLI II will impact.

This comprehensive prevention wrap around activity will address HIV/AIDS prevention among pastoralists

who migrate to and from urban and peri-urban areas in 25 towns along transportation corridors in Afar,

Oromiya and Somali regions. The goal of this activity is to prevent HIV/AIDS infection among pastoralists

and particularly to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS from an urban concentrated epidemic to a generalized

HIV/AIDS epidemic.

This activity aims to reduce HIV transmission among pastoralists through promoting HIV/AIDS prevention

through other behavior change beyond abstinence and/or being faithful (Other Prevention/OP) and

providing condoms in MARPs targeted condom outlets. This intervention includes behavior change

communication (BCC) activities to promote safer sexual practices using interpersonal communication.

It is anticipated that the PLI II program will work with other programs working in the Afar, Oromiya and

Somali regions. For community-based programs it is expected that PLI II will link with the Transportation

Corridor Program, Civil Society, Engender Health - Prevention for At Risk Populations in High Prevalence

Urban Areas in Ethiopia, PSI - Targeted Condom Promotion and Positive Change: Children, Communities

and Care (PC3). For linkages with facilities PLI II will work with I-TECH in Afar, Columbia University in

Oromiya and Somali and MSH in Oromiya.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.02:

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $0

BEAT/Pastoralist marketplace Wraparound

This new activity is a comprehensive prevention program that will receive money from MTCT, HVAB and

HVOP.

This is a new activity it will leverage $3 million from the USAID Business, Environment, Agriculture and

Trade office in a wrap around activity called the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative - Phase II Livelihoods

Component (PLI II). HIV/AIDS prevalence in Ethiopia is concentrated in urban areas. In June of 2007, The

Ministry of Health released the Single Point HIV Prevalence Estimate report which gives the latest estimate

of national HIV prevalence. That report places the adult prevalence rate at 2.2%, while the corresponding

rate in urban populations is more than 3 times higher (7.7%). This wraparound activity will allow PEPFAR

Ethiopia to access an important population that forms a bridge between the rural and urban areas in 25

towns along Ethiopia's transportation corridors in Oromia, Afar and Somali regions.

PEPFAR recognizes that marketing opportunities for pastoralists also creates an opportunity to address

HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming with this population. Pastoralists are a difficult

population to reach given their mobile lifestyle, yet they are an essential bridge population in Ethiopia where

the HIV/AIDS prevalence is much higher in urban and peri-urban areas than in rural areas. It is critical to the

spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia from urban areas to rural areas and when pastoralists travel

from rural areas to towns in order to bring their livestock to market this creates an opportunity for HIV/AIDS

programming to impact on HIV/AIDS epidemic as it affects the pastoralist. Additionally, pastoralist women

who migrate from rural to urban areas can be at a greater risk of HIV infection than their urban based

counterparts due to their economic vulnerability and social isolation. PLI II will receive funding to address

HIV/AIDS prevention care and support among pastoralists who travel to markets towns in urban and peri-

urban areas through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Further, young women who migrate from rural to urban and peri-urban areas may be particularly vulnerable

to HIV/AIDS infection. Being economically vulnerable and socially isolated, such girls and young women are

highly vulnerable to forced or coerced sex, transactional sex for daily or periodic support, and negative

reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection. Indeed, among young urban women below the age of

30, 6.8% of migrants to the urban center are HIV-positive compared to 2.8% of young women who are

native to the urban area (Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS), 2005). Young women

including OVC may be particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection in market towns where PLI II will impact.

This comprehensive prevention wrap around activity will address HIV/AIDS prevention among pastoralists

who migrate to and from urban and peri-urban areas in 25 towns along transportation corridors in Afar,

Oromiya and Somali regions. The goal of this activity is to prevent HIV/AIDS infection among pastoralists

and particularly to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS from an urban concentrated epidemic to a generalized

HIV/AIDS epidemic.

This activity aims to reduce HIV transmission among pastoralists through increasing the number of youth

and young adults practicing abstinence, secondary abstinence, and mutual fidelity.

It is anticipated that the PLI II program will work with other programs working in the Afar, Oromiya and

Somali regions. For community-based programs it is expected that PLI II will link with the Transportation

Corridor Program, Civil Society, Engender Health - Prevention for At Risk Populations in High Prevalence

Urban Areas in Ethiopia, PSI - Targeted Condom Promotion and Positive Change: Children, Communities

and Care (PC3). For linkages with facilities PLI II will work with I-TECH in Afar, Columbia University in

Oromiya and Somali and MSH in Oromiya.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Table 3.3.03: