Ethiopia

FHI mobilizes large-scale response to HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. View the region's challenges and achievements in the words of Country Director Francesca Stuer. (June 2006)

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JULY 2008 — HIV counseling and testing at sites supported by FHI/Ethiopia has skyrocketed from 5,000 tested in 2003 to over a million last year, as explained in this interview with Dr. Aida Girma of FHI/Ethiopia.

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Netherlands Awards FHI $10.8 Million to Expand Program in Ethiopia

JUNE 2008 — Following a $6 million grant in 2006, the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands is continuing to support FHI's work in Ethiopia by awarding FHI an additional $10.8 million. The goal is to expand FHI's technical assistance to the government of Ethiopia and other public health and social welfare organizations.

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Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health Services with HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

MAY 2008 — As part of its Voices from the Field series, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs interviews public health professionals who are integrating provision of sexual and reproductive health services with activities for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. FHI/Ethiopia's Country Director Francesca Stuer, Home-Based Care Team Leader Medhanit Wube, and Family Planning/HIV Integration Coordinator Tamrat Assefa recently shared their experience in this area.

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FHI and Partners Working to Increase Contraceptive Use and Lower Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections

• With support from the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, FHI is studying whether linking credit programs with family planning programs might increase contraceptive prevalence and lower fertility rates.
  
  
• Together with EngenderHealth, FHI is implementing and evaluating an intervention to introduce a new "dual protection" model of family planning counseling in Ethiopia. Dual protection refers to the approach of using a barrier method for protection against STIs and another method for contraception. Phase two of this multi-country study involves testing the intervention in approximately 20 sites.

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FHI Publishes IMPACT Project Final Report for Ethiopia

JUNE 2007 — The IMPACT Project, implemented by FHI, helped the Government of Ethiopia and local and regional partners to strengthen prevention, care, support, and treatment efforts. The project reached more than 60 million people with communications campaigns and helped partners develop a home-based care model for scale-up and replication in urban areas throughout Ethiopia. 

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YouthLens No. 6. Participatory Learning and Action (2003; PDF, 63 KB)

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FHI's strong partnerships with U.S. and host-country governmental agencies, international NGOs, universities, and local and faith-based organizations play a vital role in our high-quality research and programs.

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