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Emergency Response on the Kenya-Uganda Border FEBRUARY 2008 — Following post-election violence in December and January, more than 6,000 Kenyans fled to Uganda to seek refuge. In Busia and Malaba, Uganda, ROADS community "clusters"—associations of like-minded community-based organizations reaching specific populations—mobilized themselves to assist the refugees. Acting on their own initiative, they have provided food and clothes and have extended HIV/AIDS services.
East African Community Commemorates World AIDS Day, Renews Commitment to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support
ROADS Launches SafeTStop in Southern Sudan
ROADS Launches Farm to Provide Income-Generation and Nutrition for HIV-affected Communities
REDSO Helps Launch Multi-Country HIV Program to Benefit Mobile Populations and Communities
Behavior Change Communication for Care, Support and Treatment Workshop Held
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DECEMBER 2006 — More than 500 children, youth and adults gathered on the grounds of Malaba Primary School near the border between Kenya and Uganda to commemorate World AIDS Day Dec. 1. Music, drama and stirring "testimonies" from community members touched the audience. By day's end, 107 people sought counseling and testing at a clinic set up on site to provide these services for free. Malaba, Kenya, is a "SafeTStop," part of the ROADS Project's Regional Transport Corridor Initiative designed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and lessen the impact of HIV and AIDS along the major transport corridors of East Africa.
SEPTEMBER 2006 — To address the elevated risk of HIV infection in Southern Sudan, this month ROADS will launch HIV programming in the country. The project will reinforce and continue programming initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rumbeck, Yei, Mundri and Tambura, including HIV awareness-raising, community mobilization, counseling and testing, and management of sexually transmitted infections. ROADS will also work with PSI and the International Refugee Committee to establish SafeTStop at the Customs Market in Juba, a major HIV hotspot and gathering place for mobile populations. 
JUNE 2006 — In Malaba, Kenya, a new ROADS initiative has brought income-generating agricultural skills to the area's poor residents, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables to HIV-infected and -affected families, many of whom suffer from poor nutrition. The farm is part of the broader, regional "SafeTStop" initiative to reduce HIV infection and improve the health and well-being of communities along the major transport corridors of East and Central Africa.
