Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Details for Mechanism ID: 16798
Country/Region: Ethiopia
Year: 2013
Main Partner: FHI 360
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USDOD
Total Funding: $398,800

The Goal of the U.S.DOD/DHAPP funded "TIMIR" Sexual and Other HIV Risk Prevention Project is to help reduce HIV & STI incidence among military personnel and civilian community interface settings in selected hotspot areas. The project will target the military, their families, civilian society in and around the military bases, including bar workers. The project aims to increase knowledge about HIV, STIs and awareness of risk levels. The project will promote sustained health-seeking behaviors and encourage access to prevention, care and treatment for HIV and STIs.

While other prevention programs focus on military bases, the Health Main Directorate of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (HMD/ENDF) has identified the gap in HIV prevention activity at surrounding civil-military interface settings, as a priority. The project will collaborate with the HMD/ENDF to scale up reach by adding 5 new sites. The new sites -- Fitche, Signal Camp, Bir-Shelqo, Sherkole and Semera-Ditche-Oto-are in hotspots not currently served by the military, public or other NGO partners. The project will deliver evidence-based, combined HIV prevention services including: SBC, MARPs-friendly HCT, STI management, alcohol harm reduction counseling, condom promotion/provision and referrals. The approach will establish local and regional Civil-Military Alliance Taskforces with representatives from military command, Regional Health Bureaus, and other local government offices, to provide joint leadership of implementation and ensure long term sustainability. The project will link its activities with ongoing CDC & USAID/PEPFAR-funded HIV prevention, treatment, care & support projects, and other programs in & out of the military bases to foster synergies and avoid duplication.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $38,800

The program will support on complementing the existing AB activities with in the ENDF HIV/AIDS Program. This program will mainly focus on basic military training centers and Military combatant camps in selected hotspot areas.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $360,000

fhi360 will support prevention activities focusing on STI, Condom Use, counseling and testing and peer education activities. On top of the existing seven military hotspots, five more hotspots have been identified by ENDF into which the program will be expanded. As part of the country ownership transition process, there is a strategy in place to facilitate sites graduating and ENDF taking over the activities in a sustainable way.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $75,000
Human Resources for Health $75,000
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Implement activities to change harmful gender norms & promote positive gender norms
Increase gender equity in HIV prevention, care, treatment and support
Military Populations
Mobile Populations