INTRODUCTION
‘HIV/AIDS Awareness & CVT Programme’ is a scheme to reach out to most at risk groups, and support the provision of counselling, education and training to this group within the Naivasha District of Kenya.
The work is being undertaken in collaboration with local government ministries and community based organisations, and with training and monitoring being provided by US relief agency CARE.
LOCATION
The project is taking place in and around Naivasha, a market town in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province. Naivasha is north-west of the capital Nairobi on the shores of Lake Naivasha and on the main Nairobi to Nakuru highway.
ECONOMY
The main industry in Nakuru district is agriculture, and flower growing (floriculture) is also a source of significant employment. Naivasha Lake and its surrounding game reserves make it a popular tourist destination.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE
To raise awareness and sensitise most at risk groups to the dangers of HIV/AIDS, to educate youth groups on behavioural change, and to provide training to peer educators in the Naivasha District.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project is train 182 educators, so that they can provide community advice and information on HIV/AIDS, promote sexual behavioural change, and encourage at risk people to attend for counseling and testing.
The project is also directly working with 690 most at risk people, including
youths who are out of school, most at risk populations including commercial sex workers, truck drivers, bicycle and motorbike riders, bar and hotel hosts and hostesses, prison inmates and uniformed officers around Gilgil town and Naivasha district.
57 youth groups, with a combined total of 1,820 members are being educated on sexual behavior change through the peer education programme, while 47 local community development committees and agencies are also being targeted by the programme.
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