Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013

Details for Mechanism ID: 13368
Country/Region: Mozambique
Year: 2012
Main Partner: World Health Organization
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Multi-lateral Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $250,060

The objectives of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Treatment, and Support in Prisons Setting are to: (i) reduce the risk of transmission of HIV within prisons and (ii) reduce HIV mortality. In Mozambique specific activities for FY12, implemented by UNODC, will focus on design and implementation of an HIV/STI surveillance system in prison settings. UNODC will continue to support multi-sectorial working groups on HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs in prisons. This activity is national, with extensive central-level coordination as well as implementation activities in a cross-section of provinces. Incarcerated populations and prison staff are the targets populations. Through the nature of this project, men will be preferentially involved and the opportunity to share gender and GBV-related interventions will be maximized, there is a smaller female population group that can also bennefit from the surveillance. Expenditure analysis methodology has not been established for this activity. This activity will increase capacity of both government and civil society in coordination skills and HIV/AIDS, TB and STI in prisons knowledge and surveillance. The program also extends technical capacity building to service providers as well as raising their awareness on HIV and AIDS in prisons. UNODC works closely with, and helps build technical capacity of, the Ministry of Justice- National Prisons Services, Ministry of Health and other relevant stakeholders. It will also aims at increasing coordination within government itself and between implementing partners in the planning and implementation of efforts. UNODC is coordinating closely WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, Pathfinder among others for implementation of this activity. Pipeline has been considering in FY12 budget requests. No vehicles are requested.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $250,060

Prison Activities with UNODC through WHO CDC Cooperative Agreement: A number of factors contribute to make the prison environment a particularly high risk environment for transmission. Unprotected male to male sex is also rife in prisons and while much of the sex among men in prisons is consensual, rape and various forms of sexual abuse are frequent. Injecting drug use (IDU) is frequent in many countries and due to its efficiency IDU with contaminated equipment is one of the principle ways that HIV may be transmitted in prisons.High rates of HIV in prisons are often understood primarily from two main perspectives, one linked to countries with high rates of HIV infection in the general population, whereby the infection rates are driven primarily by unsafe heterosexual sex. In these countries, high rates of HIV infection among prisoners are related to high rates of HIV infection in the wider population as a whole. The continued spread of HIV within the prisons in these countries is related especially to sexual contact (primarily men having sex with men), as well as unsafe medical practices or sharing of razors etc. On the factor is linked to the high rates of HIV infection among injecting drug users, many of whom spend time in prison, and some of whom continue to inject while incarcerated. In these countries, high rates of HIV infection are related primarily to the sharing and reuse of injecting equipment outside and inside prison.UNODC is currently implementing a regional program on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in prisons for prison staff and prisoners since 2008. The current program has been very successful and well received by government and civil society. During the implementation of the regional programme, it has become clear that greater emphasis and development of targeted activities would be desirable. The identified activities below would enable a more comprehensive delivery of support as it relates to prison and HIV in Mozambique. Therefore it is in this respect that funds are solicited to support and increase activities that are already identified in the current programme. The activities will focus on;Supporting efforts to increase leadership and prioritization of HIV in prisons response at regional levelStrengthening HIV and TB surveillance in prisons

Subpartners Total: $0
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: NA
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Addressing male norms and behaviors
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Tuberculosis