Ethiopian Public Health Association

Date of Operation: 2011 - 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Other Implementing Partner(s): Save the Children, International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH), Impact Ethiopia, Ethiopian Interfaith Forum for Development, Dialogue and Action (EIFDDA), Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA), HST Consulting, National Network of Positive Women Ethiopians (NNPWE), African Network for Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA)

Regions of Operation: Amhara and Tigray

Goal:

To mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS and improve the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV), their families and the community

Objectives:

• Improve the provision of comprehensive, quality essential HIV/AIDS services
• Improve linkages and integration of HIV with other health and social services
• Strengthen health facilities to provide sustainable comprehensive HIV/AIDS services

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Date of Operation: 2012-2017

Primary Implementing Partner: World Learning and Population Services International (PSI)

Other Implementing Partner(s): EngenderHealth, Ethiopian Public Health Association, Handicap International

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Dire Dawa, Gambella, Harari, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Contribute to the national target of reducing new HIV infections by 50% by 2014

Objectives:

• Prevent new HIV infections by reducing behavioral risk factors among most-at-risk populations (MARPs) and other highly vulnerable populations
• Strengthen community level systems and structures to support combination prevention
• Increase the capacity of GoE to lead HIV prevention interventions that are based on the local epidemiology of new infections
• Forecast the need for and strengthen HIV prevention endeavors in selected large-scale workplaces

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