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East Africa Regional Program (ROADS Project)
The Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) Project is designed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS along major transport corridors in East Africa. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), ROADS is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and works in the following East African countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. |
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Emergency Response on the Kenya-Uganda Border FEBRUARY 2008 — Following post-election violence in December and January, more than 6,000 Kenyans fled to Uganda to seek refuge. In Busia and Malaba, Uganda, ROADS community "clusters"—associations of like-minded community-based organizations reaching specific populations—mobilized themselves to assist the refugees. Acting on their own initiative, they have provided food and clothes and have extended HIV/AIDS services.
East African Community Commemorates World AIDS Day,
ROADS Launches SafeTStop in Southern Sudan
LifeWorks Creates Jobs To Prevent the Spread of HIV Because poverty has long been known to increase vulnerability to HIV, the LifeWorks Initiative creates jobs along key transport corridors in East and Central Africa, where unemployment can be as high as 70 percent. LifeWorks is part of FHI's ROADS Project.
SafeTStop Mitigates HIV and AIDS along Transport Corridors The regional Transport Corridor Initiative, known as "SafeTStop," is designed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and lessen the impact of HIV and AIDS along the major transport corridors of East Africa.
AfriComNet Supports Key Role of Strategic Communications Supported by FHI in partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs, AfriComNet is an association of HIV and AIDS practitioners who reside, work or have a primary interest in Africa. The Network was established in recognition of the severity of the continent's HIV and AIDS epidemic and the need for a renewed emphasis on high-quality strategic communications as critical to the response.
Featured Donor: USAID Through our donors, such as USAID, FHI supports the East Africa region and its organizations in preventing the spread of HIV and improving HIV/AIDS care and support among those at highest risk.
ROADS is based in Nairobi, Kenya. If you want to learn more about the East Africa regional program or contact officials directly, visit the Contact Us Web page. |
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FHI and partners work to reduce constraints to treatment in East Africa. In this clip, ROADS Project Director Gail Goodridge underscores the role better farming techniques and good nutrition play in improving health and the effectiveness of ART. (January 2007)
DECEMBER 2006 — More than 500 children, youth and adults gathered on the grounds of Malaba Primary School near the border between Kenya and Uganda to commemorate World AIDS Day Dec. 1. Music, drama and stirring "testimonies" from community members touched the audience. By day's end, 107 people sought counseling and testing at a clinic set up on site to provide these services for free. Malaba, Kenya, is a "SafeTStop," part of the ROADS Project's Regional Transport Corridor Initiative designed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and lessen the impact of HIV and AIDS along the major transport corridors of East Africa.
SEPTEMBER 2006 — To address the elevated risk of HIV infection in Southern Sudan, this month ROADS will launch HIV programming in the country. The project will reinforce and continue programming initiated by USAID in Rumbeck, Yei, Mundri and Tambura, including HIV awareness-raising, community mobilization, counseling and testing and management of sexually transmitted infections. ROADS will also work with PSI and the International Refugee Committee to establish SafeTStop at the Customs Market in Juba, a major HIV hotspot and gathering place for mobile populations. 
Revised in 2006, The Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa is an accessible, practical tool for health professionals in developing countries who care for HIV-infected and -affected children. This important resource was written by the African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS, an informal network of health workers and social scientists committed to improving care for HIV-exposed and -infected children in Africa.
