Efforts By Government Part 2

As a continuation from last weeks post, I will explain further about ISP and its intervention on Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention. The ISP programme will be implemented along four pillars.


Today I highlight and explain the pillars in greater detail.

• .         Pillar 1 

Focuses on the delivery of innovative social marketing of integrated sexual and reproductive health, HIV and gender based violence services through standalone private sector or NGO run family planning and HIV sites.  The PopulationServices International together with funding from Britain will support the Ministry of Health to implement this pillar.

• .         Pillar 2 

Addresses the public sector integration of family planning, gender based violence, HIV and cervical cancer services. The focus is on expanding demand for these services through community based social and behaviour change promotion and strengthening of the public sector service delivery. The pillar is jointly funded by Governments of Britain, Sweden and Ireland with the funding channeled through UNFPA to support to the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare and the Ministry of Women Affairs to implement this pillar.

• .         Pillar 3 

Involves the procurement and nationwide distribution of family planning and HIV commodities to health facilities. This is being implemented by Crown Agents with co-funding from Britain and USAID.

• .         Pillar 4 

Involves the carrying out of independent impact evaluations and the provision of technical support and guidance in areas of operations research across all pillars. The World Bank Global AIDS Team is implementing this component with financial support from Britain through DFID.

While on the other hand, ISP is expected to achieve the following:

• 300 000 male circumcisions for both adults and newborns.
• Provide over 2, 2 million Couple Years of Protection helping avert
  more than 800,000 unintended pregnancies.
  Reach more than 1 million people with behaviour change
  interventions.
  Deliver HIV testing and counseling to over 400,000 people
  Provide ARV treatment to 1,200 people living with HIV and AIDS,
  including 500 sex workers and their children.
  Provide cervical cancer screening for more than 290,000 women and
  adolescent girls.
• Provide services for 7,000 survivors of sexual assault and rape,
  and reach more than 1 million people with broad based interventions tackling underlying issues of violence against women and girls.
• Contribute towards a reduction in the proportion of 'women who feel their husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife' (a DHS indicator) from 40 percent to 25 percent.
• Support the promotion and distribution of 64 million condoms.

Once these goals have been meet successfully in 2017, then the possibility of an HIV/AIDS free generation is very much possible.