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| International/Continental/National
FBO activities |
| Organization |
Goal/Intervention |
Description
of Activities |
Status |
| International |
| Faith Fellowship International |
HIV/AIDS prevention
Training for clergy
Reduce cross-generational sex
|
PSI and FFI will work together to bring faith-based and scientific-based
HIV/AIDS prevention education to FFI member churches.
The project strategies will include: innovative HIV/AIDS training
for pastors and the production of educational materials. Educational
materials will include a documentary on stopping cross generational
sex, liturgical materials, and a guide on creating effective HIV/AIDS
programs in churches. The two partners will also combine their
efforts to solicit financial support for this program.
|
Under development-
Business plan and memorandum of agreement are under development
|
| Continental |
| All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) |
HIV/AIDS prevention
Training for clergy
Care and support
|
The clergy training is designed to motivate and inspire
participating church leaders to mobilize their congregations to
stop the spread of HIV through comprehensive prevention education
strategies and support and care for PLWHA.
Seminars on how to implement an HIV/AIDS policy in the church
and how to develop effective HIV/AIDS programs will be held.
|
First training session June 8-12,
2004. Over 200 heads of denominations attended the summit.
Regional Training commence on Nov. 22, 2004
|
| Proposed Partners and Projects |
| Circle of Concerned African Women theologians |
Reduce cross-generational sex |
Mobilize faith-based communities to fight against
cross generational sex. Proposed seminars and bible studies in local
congregations and women's groups to be held to address gender inequalities
and gender violence. |
Waiting for funding |
| Council of Anglican provinces (CAPA) |
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut |
Will promote abstinence and fidelity through multiple
channels and reach target groups through sermons, church youth clubs,
women's groups, bible study, community groups, and schools. |
Waiting for funding |
| Christian Council of Churches of Zambia |
Reduce cross generational sex
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
|
Educational campaign for men and boys and mobilization
of Protestant churches in Zambia. PSI is soliciting funding to implement
this project. |
Waiting for funding |
| Ilitha Labantu/FIDA |
Reduce cross-generational sex |
Will focus on empowerment of the girl child and strengthening
of statutory rape and sexual coercion of minors. |
Waiting for funding |
| World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) |
HIV/AIDS prevention
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
|
Will promote HIV/AIDS prevention education in schools
and youth groups with an emphasis on abstinence and delayed sexual
debut. |
Waiting for funding |
| Burkina Faso |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| La Bergerie |
HIV/AIDS prevention
VCT
|
La Bergerie is an HIV testing clinic located in Gounghin
(Ouagadougou). PSI/BF has provided marketing services, an equipment
evaluation, equipment and consumables to increase testing capacity.
|
|
FADCO
|
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction |
Through PROMACO, PSI has conducted a training of an
association of Muslim religious leaders, FADCO. The activity involved
training Imams on HIV/AIDS prevention and transmission. The Imams
were requested to follow-up the training with educational sessions
at the mosque before and after prayer. |
| Burundi |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Lutheran Evangelist Church |
HIV/AIDS prevention
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
|
PSI has conducted two three-day social marketing events
with the church. One was in the Kayanza Province in January 2004
and the other was in the Muyinga Province in March 2004. |
| China |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| DAYTOP |
Harm reduction
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
|
DAYTOP is a voluntary drug detoxification organization
and cannot be registered as a faith based organization in China. |
| Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Protestant Church in Kinshasa |
HIV/AIDS prevention |
HIV prevention, Care & Support,
Orphans and Vulnerable Children, family planning/reproductive health
and child survival activities. |
|
Catholic Youth in Kinshasa
Interdenominational "Choisir La Vie" Goma
|
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction |
HIV prevention, Care & Support, Orphans and Vulnerable
Children, family planning/reproductive health and child survival
activities. |
| Guatemala |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Proyecto Vida |
Fidelity/Partner reduction
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
|
Proyecto Vida runs a home for people living with AIDS
as well as a BCC/outreach program for high risk groups (largely
CSWs and potential clients). PSI provides training and financial
support for their educational activities. |
| Guinea/West Africa |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| National Islamic League |
Research on the effectiveness of FBOs activities in
HIV prevention |
HIV/AIDS prevention. |
| Haiti |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
Catholic Church
ADRA
|
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
ORS promotion campaign broadcast over Catholic Radio
network. |
| Catholic Relief Services |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
ORS promotion, distribution and training.
Purchase of Sel Lavi.
|
| Haitian Health Foundation |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
ORS promotion and distribution in rural areas. HHF
uses theater and role playing with mother's groups to teach them
about the benefits of ORS. |
| SADA |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts
Safe water
|
Buy and promote ORS (Sel Lavi). Use theater and role
playing with mother's groups to teach them about the benefits of
ORS.
Test consumer acceptability of PuR water treatment. |
| Fermanthe Hospital |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Training on benefits of ORS. |
| Lumiere Hopsital |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| Caritas |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| Salvation Army |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| ADRA |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| Sun Light Mission |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| Oblates Missionaires Mie Immaculée |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Purchase of Sel Lavi. |
| St. Paul Clinic |
Promotion of oral rehydration salts |
Training on benefits of ORS. |
| Honduras |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Project Hope
|
High risk behavior reduction |
Providing funding for a program that promotes community
support and BCC messages for people living with AIDS. |
| Kenya |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| 39 churches |
HIV/AIDS prevention
Stigma reduction/Peer education
PSI advocacy program
|
Advocacy outreach targeting FBOs are usually made
through informal HIV/AIDS education activities conducted by PSI
advocates. These outreaches are independent activities organized
by the advocates themselves. The aim of these outreaches is to speak
to men and women of all ages to promote "safe" sexual
behaviors that reduce the rate of new infections. |
|
Catholic Church
|
Delayed sex debut and abstinence education |
|
| Laos |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| The National Front for Construction |
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
Fidelity/Partner reduction
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
|
The NFC is the governmental body responsible for all
religious and mass organizations. PSI Laos helps to support the
NFC's monthly magazine which is distributed to all faith-based organizations
throughout Laos. In return for this financial support, the NFC magazine
regularly features news articles to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and
prevention, and prints advertisements for Number One condoms. |
| The Lao Buddhist Association |
HIV/AIDS prevention |
The Lao Buddhist Association is
the largest religious organization in Laos. PSI Laos works closely
with the Lao Buddhist Association at both the national and provincial
levels. At the national level, Buddhist monks, as model members
of Lao society, are regularly invited to work with PSI Laos in promoting
HIV/AIDS prevention at traditional festivals and concerts. In keeping
with their commitment to helping people, the monks promote abstinence
and safe sex as part of the path to virtue. |
| The Champassak Province Buddhist Association |
HIV/AIDS prevention |
This provincial religious association in Champassak
province worked particularly closely with PSI Laos to develop an
IEC/BCC documentary film on HIV/AIDS prevention in 2001. The film
features a young Buddhist monk narrating a film that discusses HIV/AIDS
transmission, abstinence, fidelity, condom use, and how living a
virtuous life will help one to avoid the risk of HIV/AIDS. |
| Buddhist monks in village wats |
HIV/AIDS prevention |
PSI Laos' MVU works together with
Buddhist monks in village wats and pagodas throughout rural Laos.
At the wats, monks provide PSI's MVU team with grounds or a building
where they can set up the show. The monks also promote the MVU show
throughout the village and endorse the materials which are shown.
|
| Norwegian Church Aid |
HIV/AIDS prevention
STD prevention
|
Working together with NCA to promote HIV/AIDS and
STD prevention in Savannakhet province, PSI Laos donated condoms
and IEC materials to be distributed at the village level. For several
years, PSI Laos continued to give NCA free IEC materials, as well
as a reduced rate for the purchase of additional Number One condoms.
The condom donation was supported by UNFPA, while the IEC materials
were purchased with funds from UNDP. |
|
World Vision International
|
Maternal and child health
Optimal birth spacing
Launch of clean delivery kit
|
Through a grant from the Catalyst Consortium, PSI
Laos is partnering with World Vision International in Savannakhet
province on a pilot project to improve the health and well-being
of Lao families. Training on issues ranging from optimal birth spacing
to safe delivery to modern methods of contraception is being provided
to pharmacists, village health workers and model mothers in the
project area. As part of its social marketing activities, PSI will
launch a clean delivery kit in late 2004. |
| Madagascar |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| SALFA (Lutheran)
SAF-FJKM (Evangelical Christian)
|
HIV/AIDS prevention
Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
|
SALFA and SAF-FJKM distribute PSI FP products in their
clinics. |
| Catholic Relief Services (CRS) |
Malaria prevention
Safe Water
|
CRS distributes insecticide treated
Nets and Sur'Eau water treatment solution. |
|
Ligue de la Lecture de la Bible (Evangelical Christian)
|
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut |
Ligue is an AIDS prevention partner. |
| Malawi |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Evangelical Church of Malawi
Anglican Church of Malawi
Revival international Church
Presbyterian
|
HIV/AIDS prevention |
Seminars aimed at providing youth
the skills to delay sexual debut, understand HIV and risky behavior
are held. They use videos and discussion groups to facilitate open
talk among youth. Hundreds of young people attend these monthly
seminars. |
| ANARELA |
Supporting clergy living with HIV/AIDS
and fighting against stigma |
PSI/Malawi's FBO Coordinator serves
on the committee that organizes ANARELA's activities in Malawi. |
Catholic Church
Muslim Association
Assemblies of God
Presbyterian
|
Development of IEC materials
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
|
Under discussion. |
| World Vision of Malawi |
Religious training |
PSI/Malawi assists with facilitation
of the clergy training for different denominations in Malawi. |
|
National AIDS Commission religious task force
|
Policy |
PSI/Malawi's FBO Coordinator participates in seminars
held by the task force. |
| Mali |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Muslim Association |
HIV/AIDS prevention |
PSI is working with Muslim leaders to create standard
sermons that discuss HIV/AIDS prevention. They also mobilize community
and religious leaders to effectively address HIV/AIDS in community
and religious forums. |
| Myanmar |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| PSI/Myanmar has worked with over 50 FBOs. The organizations
listed below have their own AIDS prevention programs that teach
abstinence/delayed sexual debut and fidelity/partner reduction.
Myanmar Young Crusaders, Kalay
Kalay Methodist Church
Salvation Army, Kalay
Myanmar Baptist Church: Taungoo, Kyimindine, Insein, Bago, Hinthada
Myanmar Institute of Theology, Insein
Myanmar Council of Churches, Yangon
|
Fidelity/Partner reduction
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
|
Collaboration with FBOs usually takes the form of
giving educational health talks and trainings to organized church
groups. PSI/Myanmar initiates contact with the groups and gains
permission from them to conduct health talk sessions. In some cases,
PSI also trains individuals from the group to train their peers
to conduct similar talks. PSI provides the groups with leaflets
and samplers to distribute to the communities and groups with which
they work.
PSI also provides family planning services for one faith-based CBO.
Joon Mosque in Mandalay opened a free clinic for poor Muslims that
provides, among other things, counseling and services for birth
spacing. Products used at this clinic are supplied by PSI. |
| Namibia |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Catholic AIDS Action
Council of Churches
|
VCT |
Freestanding voluntary counseling and testing under
the New Start franchise. (4 centers). |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church AIDS
Program (ELCAP) |
VCT |
Projects under discussion |
| Catholic Health Services |
VCT |
Mission hospital based VCT under New Start brand,
3 centers. |
|
Lutheran Mission Services
|
VCT |
1 center, yet to be completed |
| Nigeria |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion
the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA)
Christian Aid
Ja'amatu Nasir Islam (JNI)
The Federation of Moslem Women Association of Nigeria
|
Fidelity/Partner reduction
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
Stigma reduction
|
PSI sponsored the training of 10 Islamic Clerics in
HIV/AIDS stigma reduction.
In 2002, PSI facilitated the production and airing of a television
spot by a very religious leader, the Sultan of Sokoto. In addition,
PSI has consulted and continues to work with religious groups and
leaders to inform development of key communications.
Assisting these FBOs to develop an HIV/AIDS strategic plan, training,
capacity building for leaders, HIV/AIDS Policy development, and
provides HIV technical assistance.
Nigeria has signed an MOU with the Muslim Association and The Anglican
Church. |
| Thailand |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Adventist |
Harm reduction |
PSI has an affiliation with the Adventists that operate
dozens of private, 18 month residential rehabilitation programs
for Thai drug addicts in Northern Thailand. |
| Uganda |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Muslim Association
Anglican Church
Seventh Day Adventists
Catholic Secretariate
Association of clergy living with HIV/AIDS (ANARELA)
|
HIV/AIDS prevention
Care and support
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
Campaign against cross generational sex
Fidelity/Partner reduction
|
In its early months, PSI/Uganda's FBO program has
embarked on: radio talk shows to discuss HIV prevention with religious
leaders, campus discussion groups to discuss cross generational
sex, and technical assistance and funding for ANARELA. |
| Zambia |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| World Vision |
Fidelity/Partner reduction |
In September 2000 PSI launched a joint program with
World Vision and FHI to target truck drivers and CSWs in six border
towns (Corridors of Hope project). This project provides IEC materials
and interpersonal edutainment to sensitize the two target groups. |
| Zimbabwe |
| Organization |
Activity |
Description |
| Marondera Lutheran Church &Faith Ministries
Marondera Family Praise Church
Marondera Catholic Church
|
HIV/AIDS prevention
Fidelity/Partner reduction
Condoms/high risk behavior reduction
Abstinence/delayed sexual debut
|
New Start VCT is organizing a series of workshops
to include many different denominations of church leaders to help
them understand the scale, nature and impact of the epidemic and
engage them to help fight it. |
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