Activities: HIV/AIDS
According to a 2005 World Bank Survey, Ethiopia ranks 5th for HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa.
AKCCCD works within two communities at particularly high risk of infection to HIV/AIDS. Arat Kilo is notorious within Addis Ababa as a centre for prostitution. Chancho, our other project site, is located on a busy highway, an ideal site for transmission, it is also close to the capital shifting the spread of HIV/AIDS from a primarily urban problem, to being an increasingly rural one.
Many of the residents have migrated to Addis Ababa from the countryside seeking employment, countless women and girls turn to selling sex as the only viable means of earning an income.
Key activities
- Providing free condoms and testing
- Training community health workers who can thenrovide reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) services to the community
- Promotion of HIV testing for pregnant mothers followed by treatment & counseling, if required, at the AKCCCD on-site clinic.
- Education for HIV+ mothers on how to reduce the chance of mother to child transmission whilst pregnant.
- Provision of homecare, counseling, medical and nutritional support for those infected
- Orphans & Vulnerable Children programme (OVC)