This program will continue to support the Minstry of Defense's Military Action Prevention Program (MAPP) by delivering educational activities with a focus on abstinence before marriage and faithfulness while married. The TBD MAPP Prevention partner will conduct workshops with 4500 predominately married male and female soldiers from all regions with the purpose of creating an understanding that abstinence is and can personally be a viable option and to thoroughly discuss faithfulness to one partner, communication within marriage, the sexual rights of women in marriage and discordance within marriage. Trainees will incorporate workshop information into their on-going work as peer educators at the military bases. Behavior Change Communications (BCC) and other strategic information materials will be administered to support this activity such as an abstinence and faithfulness handbook and an abstinence and faithfulness workshop report. At all levels attention will be given to increasing the gender equity in accessing HIV/AIDS programs and addressing stigma and discrimination.

This program will continue to deliver prevention activities for the high-risk military in support of the Ministry of Defense's Military Action and Prevention Program (MAPP). This program activity will include education seminars, training sessions for peer educators, Base Commanders and HIV/AIDS Coordinators, and the distribution of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) and other strategic information materials as well as "bulletproof" soldiers' condoms. Education seminars ranging from 3-8 hours will be carried out on all 23 bases and camps targeting 5500 soldiers. Activities include dramas which depict real life choices and dilemmas facing soldiers, lectures with question and answer sessions, contests featuring promotional items as prizes, films and testimonials by current or former military members who are living with HIV. These events are interactive with presenters working the crowd for maximal involvement by the soldiers in the learning process. A BCC filming "Remember Nambata" made under COP05 as a sequel to the popular film "Remember Eliphas" will be used to motivate soldiers to change their behavior. Service outlets at the military bases will continue to distribute "bulletproof" condoms specifically marketed for military members. At all levels, attention will be given to increasing the gender equity in accessing HIV/AIDS prevention programs and addressing stigma and discrimination. The program will further support the implementation of the Namibia Strategic Plan on Gender and activities with the aim of scaling up coordinated, evidence-based interventions to change male norms and behaviors. Military specific IEC materials focusing on abstinence and being faithful as well as on condoms will be developed and disseminated at all bases and camps. In order to ensure sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs at the level of the bases, forty-six (46) NDF personnel will be trained as Trainers of Trainers (ToT) to provide necessary training to soldiers at the bases. Chaplains at the military bases will be trained to reinforce prevention messages, particularly focusing on abstinence and being faithful and on providing spiritual and emotional counseling to HIV positive soldiers and others.

Per 07/07 reprogramming; Funds are being re-allocated from this acitvity to support the smooth running of the DAO PEPFAR Program Office in Namibia. This decrease will not impede the procurement and distribution of condoms since the Ministry of Health and Social Services is supplementing condoms to the Namibian Defence Force.

This program will continue to deliver prevention activities for the high-risk military community in support of the Ministry of Defense's Military Action Prevention Program (MAPP). This program activity will include education seminars, training sessions for peer educators, and the distribution of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) and other strategic information materials as well as "bulletproof" soldiers' condoms. Education seminars ranging from 3-8 hours will be carried out on all 23 bases and camps targeting 5500 soldiers. Activities include dramas which depict real life choices and dilemmas facing soldiers, lectures with question and answer sessions, contests featuring promotional items as prizes, films and testimonials by current or former military members who are living with HIV. These events are interactive with presenters working the crowd for maximal involvement by the soldiers in the learning process. A BCC film "Remember Rambata" made under COP05 as a sequel to the popular film "Remember Eliphas" will be used to motivate soldiers to change their behavior. An average of two service outlets at each of the 23 bases and camps and a service outlet at the REEC in Rundu will continue to distribute "bulletproof" condoms specifically marketed for military members. At all levels, attention will be given to increasing the gender equity in accessing HIV/AIDS programs and addressing stigma and discrimination.

This program will continue to deliver prevention activities for the high-risk military in support of the Ministry of Defense's Military Action and Prevention Program (MAPP). This program activity will include education seminars, training sessions for peer educators, Base Commanders and HIV/AIDS Coordinators, and the distribution of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) and other strategic information materials as well as "bulletproof" soldiers' condoms. Education seminars ranging from 3-8 hours will be carried out on all 23 bases and camps targeting 5500 soldiers. Activities include dramas which depict real life choices and dilemmas facing soldiers, lectures with question and answer sessions, contests featuring promotional items as prizes, films and testimonials by current or former military members who are living with HIV. These events are interactive with presenters working the crowd for maximal involvement by the soldiers in the learning process. A BCC filming "Remember Nambata" made under COP05 as a sequel to the popular film "Remember Eliphas" will be used to motivate soldiers to change their behavior. Service outlets at the military bases will continue to distribute "bulletproof" condoms specifically marketed for military members. At all levels, attention will be given to increasing the gender equity in accessing HIV/AIDS prevention programs and addressing stigma and discrimination. The program will further support the implementation of the Namibia Strategic Plan on Gender and activities with the aim of scaling up coordinated, evidence-based interventions to change male norms and behaviors. Military specific IEC materials focusing on abstinence and being faithful as well as on condoms will be developed and disseminated at all bases and camps. In order to ensure sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs at the level of the bases, forty-six (46) NDF personnel will be trained as Trainers of Trainers (ToT) to provide necessary training to soldiers at the bases. Chaplains at the military bases will be trained to reinforce prevention messages, particularly focusing on abstinence and being faithful and on providing spiritual and emotional counseling to HIV positive soldiers and others.

Per 07/07 reprogramming; Funds are being re-allocated from this activity to support the monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance by the DAO PEPFAR Program Office in counselling and testing services within the Namibian Defence Force and it will not impede the provision of such services.

This activity will continue to support the Ministry of Defense's Military Action and Prevention Program (MAPP) by providing military community counseling and testing at the Remember Eliphas Education Center (REEC) in Rundu, the Grootfontein Army Headquarters hospital, and the Windhoek military hospital. Three mobile units (one for each C+T center) will provide C+T services for the other 20 military bases and camps throughout the country. At least 7500 soldiers will receive HIV counseling and testing services through these initiatives. MAPP will train 10 soldiers in C+T, thereby building the capacity of the MOD/NDF to manage the epidemic. Soldiers who test positive will be transferred to an ARV program and will be monitored by MOD/NDF staff to ensure adherence. At all levels attention will be given to increasing the gender equity in accessing HIV/AIDS programs and addressing stigma and discrimination.