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Families Matter! Curriculum Adapted for Botswana
The Basha Lesedi Project Launched in the North East District
African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) JULY 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 is 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 is dedicated to supporting and enhancing Botswana's national response to HIV/AIDS.
In 2004, FHI collaborated with CDC/BOTUSA on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with women at high risk for HIV. Results were published in vol. 5 no. 2 of the African Journal of AIDS Research ("Talking about sex in Botswana: social desirability bias and its possible implications for HIV prevention research"). 
Featured Donor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FHI's office in Botswana office is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page. |
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FEBRUARY 2009 — Originally developed as Parents Matter! by the US CDC, the Families Matter! Program was adapted for use by the Basha Lesedi Project in Botswana to improve the HIV-prevention knowledge and the communication and parenting skills of parents and guardians of 10- to 13-year-olds, as well as other influential adults. 
JULY 2007 — The FHI-led Basha Lesedi (Youth are the Light) Project was launched in Nlapkhwane Village this month to the delight of residents and those in the surrounding villages of Mapoka, Zwenshambe, Gungwi, Moroka, and Masunga. Basha Lesedi promotes abstinence and related life skills among youth.
