ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

In FY 2009 Muslim AIDS Program (MAP) will expand services to areas with high prevalence such as the

North West. There will be an expansion of accelerated prevention programs targeting youth, especially girls.

MAP will also implement other sexual prevention strategies. MAP will target in-school and out-of-school

youth as follows:

Adolescents, 10-14 Years: The life skills program, Ed-Unique and Free Teens focuses on the following

topics: HIV and AIDS facts, self-esteem building, goal setting, effective communication, substance abuse,

sex and sexuality, delaying sexual debut, peer pressure, bullying, and effective decision making. The

programs are conducted through modules at schools.

Youth, 15-19 Years: No Apology, Free Teens, and the Sugar Daddy program includes HIV and AIDS

education, peer education, drug addiction, prevention of teenage pregnancies, gender health, media

literacy, rape, partner reduction, delaying sexual debut, encouraging secondary abstinence, sexually

transmitted infections, and effective communication. The MAP facilitators conduct the sessions at schools;

in addition, peer educators who have been trained to talk to their peers are available at schools.

Young Adults, 20-24 Years: The following topics are addressed in this age group: HIV and AIDS education,

substance abuse, parenting skills, sexually inflicted violence, choice disabled partnership, gender- based

violence, rape, incest, transactional sex, partner reduction, self-esteem building, counseling and testing,

encouraging secondary abstinence, and income-generating skills development for unemployed youth.

Youth camps that are currently offered appear to be well received. The program will therefore be modified to

include basic and follow-up camps for the vulnerable populations. MAP aims at 10 camps nationally

reaching at least 50 out-of-school youth per camp.

Programs complement the other and negotiations with the school authorities ensure that they fit into the

school curriculum.

The topics mentioned in the previous paragraphs are important for the prevention and management of HIV

and AIDS. Information, education and communication on HIV and AIDS facts alone need to be

supplemented with discussions on psychosocial issues that young people are faced with daily. MAP

program facilitators have found that there is a prevalence of conditions such as sexually inflicted violence,

transactional sex, teenage pregnancies, etc. within the communities. MAP implements HIV and AIDS

education programs in relation to all these topics together with reinforcing life skills including goal setting,

decision making, effective communication, assertiveness, self concept enhancement, etc. in order to

capacitate young people to deal with these conditions.

MAP will train young university students and unemployed youth to render a service to the organization.

Trained youth attend workshops as a self-development initiative, and as volunteer facilitators for the

program. MAP conducts the Ladies' Life Skills and Parenting Skills programs that promote constructive and

open communication between parents and their children. These programs are particularly well received by

the community. The use of holiday camps together with mother/daughter and father/son projects are rapidly

becoming a means of intervention whereby parent-child interaction is enhanced. MAP will adopt the "Family

Matters" parenting program where facilitators will be trained to run the program. The Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide technical assistance for this program.

The Rutanang Peer Education will be implemented within the existing program with the training of peer

educators who will be able to communicate the abstinence and being faithful (AB) messages to their peers.

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SUMMARY:Muslim AIDS Program (MAP) is a faith-based organization (FBO) working with families

holistically through its youth to promote abstinence-based norms and behavior within communities. The

project is implemented in close collaboration with either the provincial health departments the Department of

Social Development in each of the four target provinces. MAP is currently operating in the four of the nine

provinces: Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. The organization recruits and trains

young adults to work in the programs as peer group trainers and facilitators. The emphasis areas for this

project are gender through addressing male norms and behaviors, human capacity building and local

organization capacity building. The target population for this project are youth both in- and out-of-school,

community and religious leaders, and street youth.BACKGROUND:MAP life skills program is an initiative of

the Islamic Careline, Jamiatul-Ulama and the Islamic Medical Association. One of the key objectives is to

assist children and youth to become responsible members of the community. MAP has developed a series

of life skills programs and continues to provide facilitation training for the programs. MAP has been

receiving PEPFAR funding through the CDC-National Department of Health cooperative agreement since

FY 2005. In FY 2007 MAP became a sub-partner of CARE international and now receives funding through

the CARE international/CDC cooperative agreement. In FY 2008 MAP will expand services geographically

in the provinces where it is operating. There will be an expansion of accelerated prevention programs

targeting youth, especially girls. These programs will include discussions on promoting and strengthening

primary and secondary abstinence; promoting post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) after sexual assault,

discussion on gender issues, delayed sexual debut, encouraging positive prevention for infected people and

integrating reproductive health to HIV programs. These topics shall also be taught to young women as they

are the most vulnerable.ACTIVITY 1: Abstinence and Being Faithful ProgramMAP's abstinence and being

faithful (AB) life skills program will target secular and religious schools and educational institutions. The

abstinence-based messages are designed to assist youth in- and out-of-school aged 10 to 21, and to

encourage them to delay sexual debut until marriage. The organization visits a school for a six week period.

During that time, bi-weekly two hour sessions are conducted with the same group. Topics covered include

delaying sexual onset, adoption of community norms that denounce cross-generational sex, HIV and AIDS,

and stigma and discrimination.The organization also promote behavior change by endorsing social and

Activity Narrative: community norms that support refraining from sex outside marriage and partner reduction.The "No

Apologies" program will be implemented with youth from Grades 7-12, and with out-of-school youth. The

program is a character-based abstinence until marriage program. Topics covered include: healthy

relationships, media literacy, pre-marital sex has consequences, why abstinence works, and drugs and

alcohol as it relates to abstinence.The "Free Teens" program is also abstinence-based and encourages

young people to make informed choices about their future through interactive discussion on pertinent topics.

The program covers HIV and AIDS, STI's and as well as a comprehensive pregnancy prevention program

for unmarried people.Gender equity is achieved by encouraging a consistent number of both male and

female learners to attend the program. Male/female norms and behaviors are widely discussed during

school programs. Stereotypes of male/ female dominance and subservience exist in families and there is a

need for the youth to engage in and interact with these issues. ACTIVITY 2: Training and Peer

Education in SchoolsMAP will train young university students and available unemployed youth to render a

service to the organization. Trained youth attend workshops for both self development and as volunteer

facilitators for the organization. MAP conducts the ladies' life skills and parenting skills programs which

promotes constructive communication between youth and parents who are primary caregivers. The

Rutanang Peer Education concept will be implemented within the existing program with the training of peer

educators as well as the incorporation of various appropriate experiential exercises. Peer Educators will be

trained to effectively communicate the AB messages which include abstinence to the 10-14 years,

encourage them to delay sexual debut and secondary abstinence to those who have started sexual

activities and for the youth at-risk to reduce the number of sexual partners.ACTIVITY 3: Creative

EducationThe organization incorporates entertainment in the form of role plays, drama, indigenous games,

dancing and singing to reinforce the AB and the life skills message. In the Orphan and Vulnerable Children

program, life skills are simplified to suit the needs of this special group of learners. Some of the topics that

will be added will include road safety, basic entrepreneurial skills, peer communication skills as well as arts

and culture. The program is translated into different languages for the benefit of the learners in some

schools.Evaluations of these programs have proven that the use of creative arts is well received by the

learners and this will therefore be expanded. The use of holiday camps as well as mother/daughter and

father/son projects are rapidly becoming a means of intervention whereby parent-child interaction is

enhanced and promoted. ACTIVITY 4: Capacity BuildingMAP provincial offices mentor eight community-

based organizations (CBOs) in order to develop capacity in AB programs and to strengthen peer education.

Specific training for CBOs includes workshops on program management, basic information on HIV and

AIDS, and "NO Apologies" "Free Teen" and Rutanang Peer Education. Interns and volunteers are recruited

to facilitate the implementation of the program in informal settlements and previously disadvantaged

communities. The volunteers are capacitated with additional training opportunities to improve skills for

effective service delivery. These activities will contribute to the PEPFAR 2-7-10 goals by promoting

knowledge and skills to prevent HIV infection in youth population that may have an increased risk to HIV

exposure.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 15937

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

15937 15937.08 HHS/Centers for Muslim AIDS 7299 7299.08 CARE UGM $220,000

Disease Control & Program

Prevention

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

* Reducing violence and coercion

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $220,000

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

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