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Guyana
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504-003
USAID MISSION: Guyana
PROGRAM TITLE: HIV/AIDS Prevention (Pillar: Global Health)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Improved HIV/AIDS Awareness, Knowledge and Applied Prevention Strategies, 504-003
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $ 1,000,000 CSH
PRIOR YEAR UNOBLIGATED AND FUNDING SOURCE: $0
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $ 1,000,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2000 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: USAID's HIV/AIDS program seeks to increase Guyana's prevention efforts and slow the rate of new infections. The overall strategy is to help non-governmental organizations (NGOs) expand their HIV/AIDS prevention activities that target youth. In addition, USAID has begun to work with several faith-based organizations to provide care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS. Program components include:
- training to strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of NGOs to deliver HIV/AIDS programs;
- training of peer educators with indigenous manuals and materials;
- training of peer crisis intervention counselors;
- providing public awareness campaigns targeting youth-oriented media, as well as public outreach efforts and drama events aimed at increasing knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the adoption of safe sex practices; and
- providing technical assistance to the National AIDS Program to improve condom distribution systems.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: In FY 2002, USAID will use CSH funds to expand its NGO partnership to provide HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention activities to targeted areas in all of Guyana's ten regions. This will begin to bring information and services to the Amerindian populations in the hard-to-reach hinterland regions where open borders and the presence of mining and logging camps increase high-risk behavior. Innovative indigenous communication materials will continue to be developed with particular attention to addressing specific ethnic and religious groups. Additional training of NGO partners will increase their systems management, workplan development, strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation capacity.
The FY 2002 program will also strengthen NGO relationships with production and media companies to facilitate further development of innovative communication materials. With increasing numbers of youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, USAID will continue to integrate several faith-based organizations into the partnership to provide care and support to the people living with HIV/AIDS. Technical assistance will be given to the National AIDS Program Secretariat to improve condom distribution and undertake a feasibility study of condom social marketing.
Planned FY 2003 Program: With the resources requested for FY 2003, activities focusing on prevention, care and support through NGOs will be expanded and deepened geographically and programmatically. New NGO partners will receive extensive assistance to boost their technical and organizational capacity to match the capacity of the original NGO partners. With technical assistance from a local CPA firm, all NGO partners will receive training in financial management and have a computer system installed to track USAID and other donor project funds. Technical support to the Ministry of Health, as well as to the NGOs, will continue. A targeted national behavioral surveillance survey will be undertaken in order to determine program efficacy and guide workplan development.
Performance and Results: The increase in the number of youth reached through the USAID program has been impressive, going from 1,700 in 1999 to almost 34,000 in 2000 and over 40,000 in the first six months of 2001. There have been 179 media appearances promoting HIV/AIDS prevention messages and over 450 media spots.
Within 18 months there have been 186 outreach events reaching 74,000 youths, and an 88% increase in peer educator corps membership.
The Guyana HIV/AIDS/STI youth program will be highlighted on the "Volunteers' Odyssey" television program. Details are available at http://3-1416.org/Odysweb.
NGO partners have been successful in attracting additional resources to support their HIV/AIDS activities, including an award from the U.S. State Department's Kirby Grant Program to cover mounting media costs, and an award from UNAIDS to bolster materials production and counselor training for the program's core group of 160 peer educators. The program is also beginning to see tangible evidence of the success of its outreach and awareness raising efforts. This year's World AIDS performance, produced by USAID's drama group partner, played to a standing room only audience of youth and had to be extended for three nights to accommodate the demand. The Peer Educator component has become so popular that partners are continuously adding training sessions and are now training other youth groups to extend the program further. Based on the accomplishments of the first two years, prospects for success of USAID's HIV/AIDS prevention program are high.
End-results of this program will include increased NGO capacity to deliver HIV/AIDS prevention messages to targeted groups; increased knowledge of HIV/AIDS in targeted groups; and increased use of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in targeted groups. In addition, the availability of condoms will be substantially higher than it is at present.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: The major U.S. contractor for this objective has been Family Health International. However, USAID anticipates that an increasing proportion of program resources will be directed to support the expanding number of NGO partners and for locally- procured technical assistance through a competitively let contract with a local accounting firm. International technical assistance through Global Health Bureau mechanisms will be used when required expertise is unavailable in country. A Johns Hopkins University Fellow will be funded to assume program management and monitoring.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
504-003 Improved HIV/AIDS Awareness, Knowledge and Applied Prevention Strategies CSD CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 200 0 Expenditures 120 0 Unliquidated 80 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 798 0 Expenditures 418 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 998 0 Expenditures 538 0 Unliquidated 460 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 1,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 1,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 1,000 Future Obligations 0 0 0 Est. Total Cost 998 1,000 1,000
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