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Protection and Care of Families against HIV/AIDS

Initiative of the First Lady of Rwanda
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PACFA Projects 2004-2005

• Child Headed HouseholdsKimironko Village
• Listeners Club
• Youth Friendly Centers
• Mutuelles de Santé
• Family Package
• PMTCT
• Care Treatment for Women Genocide Survivors
• Education Project
• Girls Education Campaign

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Prevention YouthChild headed households
(CHH)

• BACKGROUND
• As a result of the1994 genocide, Rwanda has one
  of the highest percentages in the world of
  children under the age of 18 living as orphans.
  
• Many of these children are heads of their
  households 13 of households in Rwanda (approx.
  120,000 homes)
  
• They are among the poorest and most vulnerable
  people in the country. Many lack sufficient
  access to education, healthcare and shelter.
  

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Prevention YouthChild headed households
Funders SOS, Survivors Fund, Kigali Golf Club
Budget Approx. 125,000 Beneficiaries
85 households (380 orphans)
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Prevention YouthChild headed households

• General Objectives
• To ensure that the CHH meet their basic/immediate
  and long-term needs.
  
• To assist CHH to attain self sufficiency through
  training and IGA
  
• To contribute to reducing CHH vulnerability to
  unplanned pregnancies, HIV/AIDS and other
  sexually transmitted infections.
  
• To promote networking amongst relevant partners
  and stakeholders to ensure socio-economic
  empowerment and integration of vulnerable
  children.

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Prevention YouthChild headed households

• Main Activities
• Provision of food support
• Rehabilitation of homes
• Trauma counseling (in collaboration with FACT)
• Sensitization and advocacy among partners and
  relevant authorities

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Prevention YouthChild headed households
Challenges

• The project is funded only up to June 2005 the
  youth are not yet self sufficient. Most are
  unemployed and do not yet have the capacity or
  financial means to develop and manage sustainable
  income generating projects
• These beneficiaries, supported by PACFA are a
  very small percentage of the CHH in the country
  (only 85 out of approx.120,000)
  

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Prevention YouthChild headed households

• NEXT STEPS
• Mobilize funds to extend PACFA support to other
  CHH throughout the country.
  
• Assist CHH to develop and manage income
  generating activities.
  
• Sensitization on HIV/AIDS and early pregnancies.

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Prevention Youth Listeners club

• Project Objectives
• To contribute to a sensible decrease of risky
  behavior among the youth in relation to
  HIV/AIDS.
  
• To promote a better awareness of the factors
  involved in HIV/AIDS vulnerability specific to
  young women.
  

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Prevention Youth Listeners club

• Funded by USAID
• Partners National Youth Council, USAID,
  ORINFOR, Radio IZUBA
  
• Pilot Provinces Gitarama and Kibungo
• Project duration 1 Year
• Project budget 62,000

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Prevention Youth Listeners club

• Key project activities
• Sensitization of local authorities to gain
  support and involve them in the project.
  
• Train 40 trainers who will in turn train 645 club
  heads.
  
• Equip clubs with radios.
• Develop messages and themes to be disseminated
  and presented by the different clubs through
  radio talk shows.
  
• Produce and broadcast announcements advertising
  the show
  

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Prevention YouthYouth Friendly Centers

• Project Objectives
• To strengthen the youth capacities and provide
  support centers, in order to promote increased
  knowledge of HIV/AIDS among the youth
  
• To assist them in obtaining training in life
  skills which will have a positive impact on their
  behavior change.
  

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Prevention YouthYouth Friendly Centers

• Funded by UNICEF, UNAIDS
• Budget 200,000
• Partners National Youth Council,
  Association of Scouts in Rwanda.
  

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Prevention YouthYouth Friendly Centers

• Youth centers to be functional by July 2005.
• Kabuga Youth Center
• Nyamata Youth Center
• Gisenyi Youth Center
• Ruhengeri Youth Center
• MVK Youth Center
• Byumba Youth Center

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Reduction of HIV/AIDS Stigma and
Discrimination.Mutuelles de santé

• Project Objectives
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• To carry out an assessment on access to health
  care by families affected by HIV/AIDS.
  
• To improve access to health care for vulnerable
  groups through enrolment in mutuelles.
  
• To reduce stigma and discrimination of people
  affected by HIV/AIDS.
  
• To strengthen the institutional capacity of PACFA
  to implement HIV/AIDS advocacy programs .
  

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Reduction of HIV/AIDS Stigma and
Discrimination.Mutuelles de santé

• Partners Network of People living with
  HIV/AIDS, AVEGA, Community leaders
  
• Funded byActionAID SIPAA
• Budget 80,000

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Reduction of HIV/AIDS Stigma and
Discrimination.Mutuelles de santé

• Achievements
• Situation analysis complete.
• Identification of beneficiaries has been carried
  out by RNP and AVEGA
  
• Mutuelles membership funds have been transferred
  to the respective mutuelles.
  

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Care and SupportFamily Package Programme

• BACKGROUND
• Launched in February 2002 by the First Lady of
  Rwanda at the Kacyiru Health Center
  
• Builds on the benefits of MTCT interventions by
  extending basic care and support to parents
  living with HIV/ADS and their children.
  
• It is the next logical step in improving quality
  of life, promoting family stability and
  protecting vulnerable children.
  

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Care and SupportFamily Package Programme

• Partners Global Fund, Pangaea, Unicef, WFP,
  Clinton Foundation.
  
• Budget US 12,500/month.
• Beneficiaries 265 families

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Care and SupportFamily Package Programme

• Family Package Facts (Feb 2002-Feb 2004)
• pregnant women tested for HIV 4528
• pregnant women found to be HIV 590
  (approx.13)
  
• families accessing food support 230
• children receiving artificial milk 32
• individuals on ARV therapy 254
• pregnant women who received nevirapine 211
• children of HIV mothers under treatment 363

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Care and SupportFamily Package Programme

• Challenges
• Difficulty in finding partners/funders to commit
  to providing the different essential components,
  from healthcare to social services, that are
  required by the programme.
• Lack of Maternity and Multi-purpose Hall to
  facilitate delivery of treatment and provide
  appropriate setting for Associations
  micro-finance projects.

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Care and Support PMTCT

• Project Objective
• To promote the parental approach (essentially,
  the improved participation of male partners) in
  PMTCT programmes.
  

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Care and Support PMTCT

• Target 13 identified health centers.
• Partner Unicef
• Budget Approx. 15,000

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Care and Support PMTCT

• Achievements
• Phase 1 for the 4 pilot centers in Butare is
  complete
  
• Training of center staff is complete.
• 176 families are enrolled in mutuelles de santé.
• 25 people have been trained to provide Home Based
  Care.
  
• Creation of two Associations of PLWHA.
• These centers will eventually provide the
  complete Family Package
  

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Care and SupportCare treatment for women
survivors of the genocide

• General Objective
• To provide comprehensive care and treatment to
  women who were raped and deliberately infected by
  HIV during the 1994 genocide and who suffer from
  a double social stigma
• Rape and HIV/AIDS

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Care and SupportCare treatment for women
survivors of the genocide

• Funder DFID (UK Government)
• Beneficiaries 1500 survivors plus their
  dependants
  
• Partners Survivors Fund (SURF), AVEGA, Rwanda
  Womens Network, Solace Ministries, IBUKA,
  CNLS, TRAC
  
• Budget 8,000,000 over 5 years
• Pre-implementation phase until May 31, 2005
• First implementation period is June 2005 - Nov
  2006
  

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Education Project

• General Objective
• To reintegrate into secondary school children
  from disadvantaged families, who had dropped out
  due to lack of means and to support them for the
  duration of secondary school education.

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Education Project

• Achievements
• Rwandan population mobilised and funds raised to
  sponsor needy children
  
• As of 2002, 530 children were identified and
  reintegrated into the school system
  
• A number of PACFA students received prizes for
  academic performance
  
• The project has promoted sponsorship of poor
  students beyond original beneficiaries
  

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Girls Education Campaign

• General Objective
• To create awareness and promote partnerships for
  improved academic performance of girls in school.

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Girls Education Campaign

• Main Activities
• Province tour events and media campaign to
  promote improved performance of girls using
  national role models
  
• Distribution of awards by the First Lady to the
  best performing girls in primary and lower
  secondary in all provinces
  

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