|
Country Profiles |
|||
Bangladesh
|
|
||
|
A Woman Finds Her Voice, Protects Self and Others from HIV
Bangladesh AIDS Program (BAP) From 2000–2005, FHI implemented USAID's IMPACT Project in Bangladesh. Since July 2005, FHI has managed USAID's Bangladesh AIDS Program (BAP), working with 21 local organizations and NGOs on 23 projects to provide a strong, coherent approach to outreach among the most vulnerable. BAP is scaling up and integrating HIV prevention efforts and provision of clinical services. Drop-in centers—branded as Modhumita—provide health services for vulnerable populations in strategic HIV and AIDS "hotspots".
Publications from FHI/Bangladesh
Summary Report of Key Findings and Program Recommendations from FHI MSM Program Evaluations OCTOBER 2007 — This study, prepared by FHI's Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO), reveals an overall positive effect of FHI programming on knowledge, sexual risk behavior, and access to commodities and services through a variety of interventions such as behavior change, advocacy, networking, community mobilization, and capacity building. However, quality and coverage were inconsistent from one site to another and there is a need to promote a minimum package of priority interventions along with improved organizational capacity and program monitoring.
Featured Partner: USAID In 2005 FHI and its partners began to implement the USAID-funded Bangladesh AIDS Program. This program will reach the most vulnerable populations in Bangladesh with gender-sensitive and sustainable prevention and care programming. FHI will conduct outreach activities, establish integrated health centers and brand them with the Modhumita (sweet friend) name. BAP will support the prevention of HIV transmission through a communications campaign involving the weekly sermons of religious leaders as well as religious television programming. BAP will continue to support surveillance and research. Along with its partner JSI/Bangladesh, FHI will build the capacity of local implementing agencies. In addition to FHI, BAP's main partners include Masjid Council for Community Advancement and Social Marketing Company.
The FHI Bangladesh office is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page.
|
|||
 |
|||
JANUARY 2008 — USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Kent Hill toured the nonprofit Community Health Rehabilitation, Education and Awareness (CREA) facility in Dhaka last month. With support from FHI and funding from USAID, CREA provides a residential detoxification service to street-dwelling, needle-sharing, injecting drug users who, on their own, never could afford such treatment. The program, called Modhumita ("sweet friend," logo pictured at left) has linked up with an organization originally funded by USAID to develop business and expand employment in Bangladesh.
JUNE 2007 — Through its partner, Light House, FHI reaches out to sex workers in Bangladesh, providing counseling, health services, condoms, and strategic behavioral communication training. Read about Lovely, one of many impoverished rural woman who came to the city seeking work but ended up on the streets. Though speech-impaired, Lovely has become an effective peer educator.
