Prevention and Care Services for At Risk Mobile Populations (TransACTION)
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Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children
Other Implementing Partner(s): FHI 360; Population Services International (PSI); Marie Stopes international; Common Vision for Development Association (CVDA); Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church (EKHC); FIDO; Integrated Service for AIDS Prevention and Support (ISAPSO); Love in Action Ethiopia; Mekdim Ethiopia; Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA); Organization for Social Services for AIDS(OSSA); Professional Alliance for Development in Ethiopia (PADET); Pro PRIDE; South Ethiopia People's Development Association (SEPDA); Tigray Youth Association (TYA)
Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray
Goal:
Provide HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) prevention and care services for most at risk mobile populations
Objectives:
- Expanded access to a network of key prevention, care and support services for most at risk populations
- Strengthened quality of prevention services and community based care for at risk populations
- Increased demand and supportive environment for provision and use of key services
- Strengthened institutional and technical capacity of local NGOs, private facilities
Description:
TransACTION covers the most at-risk populations in 120 towns and communities along identified transportation routes. The program aims to prevent new infections, strengthen linkages to care and support services, promote behavior change and communication, increase economic empowerment to avert new infections, build capacity, and promote gender equity and equality. The focus group of the project includes commercial sex workers, women and men involved in cross generational and transactional sex, mobile and migrant workers including truck and bus drivers, seasonal farm workers, domestic workers, people living with HIV; and discordant couples.
