University RHHIV

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University RH/HIV AIDS Intervention
ProjectSYGEApril 7, 2009
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Background

• Growing enrollment and new universities in
  different part of the country (No. of
  universities in the country, estimated number of
  students)
• Universitys focus on the academic and
  administrative issues than the soft concern (HIV)
• Evidences has shown that university students are
  more vulnerable to wider SRH and HIVAIDS problems
  that might be due to new environment with poor
  protection, age and the need to explore life,
  peer pressure and absence of proactive programs.
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BackgroundContinued

• According to the operational study,2006 carried
  out in Hawassa University, by SYGE, 53.7 of
  university students reported that they have had
  sexual intercourse, of which 41.3 reported that
  they had their first sexual intercourse after
  joining the campus and of these 46.7 had their
  sexual encounter in the compound the one year
  prevalence of multiple sexual partners as
  reported by students who admitted to having
  sexual contact in the last year was 32.8).

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BackgroundContinued

• A study conducted on 2006 at AAU, main campus,
  indicated that 80 of target population
  indicated that they want to make blood test but
  only 40 have taken VCT before.
• Increased demand for
• VCT

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BackgroundContinued

• In recognition to the magnitude of the problem
  SYGE and UNICEF initiated university level HIV
  prevention interventions in 2003.
• Addis Ababa, Adama, Haramaya, Dire Dawa, Jimma,
  Ambo, Jijiga, Wollo, Semera, Mekele, Gondar,
  Arbaminch, Hawassa, and Dilla, Universities have
  benefited from such interventions.
• Currently, working among fourteen national
  Universities (Adama, Haramaya, Dire Dawa, Jimma,
  Ambo, Jijiga, Wollo, Semera,) in collaboration
  with UNICEF- Ethiopia and Geneva
  Global-NPI-Ethiopia

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Needs for Intervention

• University level RH/ HIV AIDS Interventions are
  needed in order to
• - Empower university students and staff with
  relevant and contemporary information on RH/ HIV
  and thereby reduce vulnerability to infection.
• Establish and strengthen networks between
  different universities (students and staff) and
  different Stakeholders (GOs, CSOs, CBOs, FBOs)
• Establish and strengthen university level
  capacity to plan, implement, monitor and document
  HIV intervention
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Strategies

• Peer Education and Life skill
• Youth Dialogue/ CC
• Youth Friendly RH
• Services
• Club Management
• Development, Production
• and Dissemination of
• IEC/BCC materials

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Achievements to date

• Reached

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Achievements to dateContinued

• Trainings

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Multiplier effect

• Reaching more students through cascaded and
  monitored PE and LS activities
• On a single University, TOT for 20 students will
  be given, these will train 100 others, these in
  turn will reach 1000, 10 each, informally
• In one year(eight universities), 8000 peer
  learning members will be reached by 800 trained
  peer educators by 160 who took ToT.

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Multiplier effect Continued

• Cascaded PE and LS activities

ToT for 20 students
ToT for 160
In eight universities,
Training given for 800
Training for 100
In eight universities
Each will reach 10 informally, gt 1000
8000 individuals will be reached
In eight universities
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Multiplier effect Continued

• Regarding Youth Dialogue,
• On a single university, training for 20 Dialogue
  facilitators will be given, to facilitate 300
  participants.
• In eight universities, there are 160 facilitators
  and 2400 participants who will attend 11 sessions
  per year
• Youth dialogue has been found to generate
  concrete intervention in puts
• University students voice (maeid) as a tool for
  resonance

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Students can generate and share ASRH and
HIV/AIDSrelated issues.
Best Practices.Continued
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Female students participation becomes
encouranging
Best Practices.Continued
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• Best Practices
• The students have been able to identify their own
  problems and come up with solutions through
  dialogue.

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• Best Practices.Continued
• Participation of students with disabilities on
  the issue of RH/HIV and AIDS is encouraging

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Challenges

• Base for current university students needs to be
  given due attention so as to reduce potential
  vulnerability so, school based prevention
  intervention needs to be given due attention ,
• Coordination between different actors in as far
  as university based HIV prevention is concerned ,
• Given growing demand from all universities, SYGE
  is not in a position to meet those demands due to
  financial and logistic limitation in expanding
  project areas,
• Increase the number of RH/HIV and AIDS
  intervention activities and strategies, and

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Way forward

• SYGE
• As a youth organization established by and for
  youth
• Having 18 years of dedicated experience working
  for and with youth in Ethiopia
• Tested several intervention tools
• Having committed staff who are youth themselves
• Have been working in most regions of the
  country(Afar, Somali, SNNPR , Oromia, Amhara,
  Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa)

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Way forward continued

• Having been partnered with government and several
  donor institutions
• Would reaffirm its commitment to work with young
  people, government, donors, CBOs and CSOs to meet
  the ever increasing demands and concerns of youth
  in Ethiopia
• UNICEF is also committed to continue spearheading
  the support for adolescents and young people
  including those in universities

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• Thank You