Background
The project seeks to address the escalating and
ever demanding scourge of HIV and AIDS pandemic. It aims at
continuing with interventions that have proved to take the
country into the next level in the reduction of the
pandemic. Aware of the fact that the disease is by now
stabilizing at least for the first time in a long time, but
are equally concerned that it is stabilizing at the very
high stage. Therefore, to address issues of Treatment, Care
and support and to engage in Impact mitigation. Though
interventions related to impact mitigation are to be dealt
within the decentralized response through local government
structures, it is worth mentioning that our organizations
are ready to embark on activities related to decentralized
approach, since some of them are already dealing with
activities entailed within the local government structures.
The project shall be implemented through a number of our
member organizations most of which are already playing an
active role in the priority areas as set in the guidelines.
Program Implementation
The project is focused on the following:
Prevention
Particularly in regard to Life Skill and Self Reliance
for out of school youth the programme intends to first of
all harness the existing life skill curricular, both
developed by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)
on the same token the project shall empower youth and
adolescent with necessary skills and knowledge to prevent
and control substance abuse. It is also the plan of the
project to engage youth in IGAs that have proved
sustainability even beyond the life span of the project.
This will go a long to curb the girl child to engage in
sexual activities in an attempt to fight poverty. The
highlight of this intervention will be coming up with the
Youth Action Plan on Life Skills and Self Reliance for out
of school youth.
On women and girls:
The project plans to capacitate the girl child with
preventive education on abstinence. It will also equip girls
and young women on skill to stay in healthy love
relationships. The project shall also educate women and
girls on laws and policies that empower them. One Act that
women and girls shall get tautology on is the Legal Capacity
of Married Persons (2006), coupled with The Sexual Offence
Act of2003. The highlight of issues relating to Women and
Girls empowerment on life skills relating to their rights
shall be commissioning new interventions and rolling out the
already existing ones like; ‘Gender, HIV and AIDS and Law in
Lesotho: Embracing Rights-Based Approach to Promote Women’s
Sexual Reproductive Rights.’
Training Teachers on HIV and AIDS
The project intends to keep the teaching pool in the
classroom as opposed to when interventions that are
reactionary, that come when the damage is already create.
The highlight of this component is to reduce new infections
among teachers and to equip learners with skills that will
enable the overcome peer pressure and other pressures that
can lead them to infection.
Treatment, Care and Support
Interventions in this area shall focus on training people on
ART. The emphasis shall be on dispelling the myths around
ART. Both the social and health benefits from proper usage
of ART shall form the pinnacle of the intervention. The
project shall develop a baseline data analyzing the degree
of ART literacy and adherence country wide.
The project will engage stakeholders in each of its
components. The member organizations will be the ones
spearheading the interventions. Therefore, out of school
youth, the herd boys, women and girls, teachers and people
shall be differently involved right through the project.
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