Supporting Acceleration of HIV Prevention within the Forcas Armada de Defensa de Mocambique
Abstract
Jhpiego, a nonprofit affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University, is pleased to offer the Department of Defense (DOD) a two-year proposal to provide support to the DOD’s Military Specific HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment Program for PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) Funded Countries. Through this award, Jhpiego will work with the Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique (FADM) to implement a comprehensive HIV prevention program targeting military personnel, their families and civilians who live in communities near FADM bases. Jhpiego will build on the FADM’s past and current efforts in HIV prevention to consolidate gains made to date and to expand interventions that cater to the military’s need to reach more soldiers and their families with education and services. The program’s overall goal is to contribute to reduction in the number of new HIV infections and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among members of the FADM, their families and the civilian communities served by the FADM. Specific program objectives are to: 1) support the FADM to conduct 56,000 voluntary, safe male circumcisions (SMCs) for soldiers, family members and men from surrounding communities; 2) support the FADM to provide HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services to 70,000 soldiers, family members and members of surrounding communities; 3) support the procurement and distribution of 3,025,000 condoms to soldiers and members of surrounding communities; and 4) support the dissemination of messaging on the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) to 70,000 soldiers, family members and members of surrounding communities. If approved by Mozambique’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Defense (MOD), Jhpiego also stands ready to work with the FADM to determine programmatic inputs for introducing the PrePex™ circumcision device in an active surveillance phase in the target military settings, potentially including Beira Air Force Health Center and Nampula Military Hospital. Over the two-year program period, Jhpiego will make every effort to keep the unit cost for SMC procedures low by capitalizing on existing MOD staff, infrastructure and other resources, and will ensure that interventions are institutionalized for sustainability. Jhpiego anticipates that through the active engagement of the FADM in program planning, implementation and monitoring, FADM staff will have the capacity to manage and implement their HIV prevention program on their own by the end of the program period. Successful implementation of this program will generate best practices that could be applied to other uniformed forces and workplace-based initiatives to further benefit the Government of Mozambique’s fight against HIV/AIDS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 09, 2016
- Source ID
- N002441510044
Entities
People
- Jonathon Davitte
Organizations
- United States Navy