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Basha Lesedi Project The Basha Lesedi Project aims to create environments that support healthy behaviors among youth. It promotes abstinence, delay of sexual debut, faithfulness, and condom use. In addition, it aims to reduce both the number of sexual partners and alcohol abuse, and encourages resistance to peer pressure to engage in potentially harmful behaviors. The project involves influential adults to help create these supportive environments, and urges parents, guardians, and community leaders to support wise choices. The project's research and monitoring activities include a participatory learning and action study, baseline and end-line surveys, and a monitoring and evaluation system. FHI is managing this project to promote abstinence and related life skills among youth. The Botswana Network for AIDS Service Organizations (BONASO) is the local managing partner. Local implementing partners are Basha Lesedi is funded by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Consultancy Assignment from ACHAP In 2007, FHI teamed with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs (CCP) to win a consultancy assignment from the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). ACHAP was a country-led, public-private development partnership between the Government of Botswana, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Merck Company Foundation/Merck & Co., Inc. The partnership was dedicated to supporting and enhancing Botswana’s national response to HIV/AIDS.For this assignment, FHI and CCP developed an operational plan that provides a detailed and practical framework for rapidly going to scale with a comprehensive range of prevention interventions at national and district levels. The development of the plan was guided by the National AIDS Coordinating Agency and in close collaboration with ACHAP. |
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