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| Fast Facts: |
Project
document and reports:
• Implementation
Manual for Global Fund Grants
Sub-Recipients
• Monitoring
& Reporting of Financial and
Programmatic Performance
• Project
document |
| Location: |
All
15 Northern States of Sudan |
| Duration: |
January
2007 - 2012 |
| Focus
area: |
Responding
to HIV/AIDS |
| Donors: |
GFTAM
– The Global Fund for Fighting
Tuberculosis , AIDS and Malaria |
| Total
Funds Available: |
US
$ 29,421,145 |
| Partners: |
WHO,
UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNFPA, Sudan Family
Planning, Muslim AID. |
| Delivery
for 2007:
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US $ 5,586,467.14 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Fatima
El-Sheik, Senior Programme Officer,
fatima.elsheikh@undp.org
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Background
According to the national survey conducted
by the Sudan National AIDS Programme
(SNAP) in 2002, Sudan is the most severely
affected country in North Africa and
the Middle East with an estimated 500,000
people living with HIV/AIDS, and mostly
in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Despite the fact that the epidemiological
data is limited, it is believed that
the country is in the early stages of
a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic, with
an almost exclusively heterosexual transmission
pattern. The adult prevalence rate of
HIV has been estimated at 1.6%, with
specific population group prevalence
rates ranging from 0.5% to 2.5% in the
northern part of the country.
The 2002 survey showed a low awareness
of HIV/AIDS, with only 53% of the
population being aware of the sexual
transmission risk of HIV/AIDS, and
a total of 640,000 individuals being
infected with HIV. It has been reported
that 0.5% limited sentinel surveillance
testing during 2004 yielded prevalence
rates of 0.95% (18/1900) among pregnant
women, 1.9% (9/465) among symptomatic
sexually transmitted disease (STD)
infected patients, and 2.3% (33/1436)
among TB patients. False beliefs about
HIV/AIDS transmission were common,
as were indicators of strong stigma.
In fact 44% of respondents said that
they would not share a meal with an
infected individual, 31% would not
nurse a patient, and 30% would not
allow an infected child or teacher
to attend school.
To address this situation, in January
2007 UNDP launched a project called:
Scaling-up the National Response for
Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
in Sudan, with the support of the Global
Fund to Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
(GFATM).
Objectives
The project’s main objective is
to reduce the HIV/AIDS transmission
and mortality rate in Sudan.
With this in mind, the project’s
specific objectives are as follows:
• Enhance and reduce risk behaviour
through raising awareness on HIV/AIDS
and other STDs amongst the general population,
and vulnerable and high risk groups
in all states.
• Ensure quality Voluntary,
Confidential Counseling and Testing
(VCCT) services are available and
utilized in all states.
• Ensure access to condoms through
free distribution and social marketing
outlets in target communities.
• Establish a system of non-remunerated
voluntary blood donors (NRVBD), to
gradually replace the existing higher-risk
replacement family donation. Six regional
blood banks will be established along
with the formation of six mobile blood
collection teams.
• Ensure people living with
HIV/AIDS receive care and support
and a targeted 40,000 will have begun
receiving Antiretroviral Treatment,
by 2012.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
• Presented a total of 9,600 people
with outreach activities such as raising
awareness sessions among the youth and
amongst vulnerable and high risk groups
in all northern states.
• Exposed 4,800 young people to
HIV/AIDS education in and out of school
settings in Jebel Awlia and in Khartoum
State.
• Completed counseling and testing
of 3,000 new people who sought voluntary
screening.
• Completed counseling and testing
of 1,500 pregnant women who sought voluntary
testing.
• Provided a total of 53 homes
with care services in some of the existing
retroviral treatment sites, where there
are links with NGOs or outreach counseling
services. These efforts will further
be supported and standardized.
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