This final report documents FHI/IMPACT work in Ethiopia from September 2001 to September 2006.

The IMPACT Project, implemented by FHI, helped the Government of Ethiopia and local and regional partners to strengthen prevention, care, support, and treatment efforts. Initiated in the capital, Addis Ababa, the program quickly expanded into three regional states: Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region.

Project accomplishments included the following:

• Strategic behavioral communications campaigns reached more than 60 million people with messages relating to safer sexual behavior, the benefits of counseling and testing, and the harm caused by stigma and discrimination.
• IMPACT helped its partners develop a home-based care model for scale-up and replication in urban areas throughout Ethiopia. Rooted in communities to ensure sustainability, the approach uses local NGOs to monitor community-based organizations as they manage and support volunteer caregivers.
• IMPACT supported a major scale-up of counseling and testing services by integrating them into government health centers. IMPACT supported regional health bureaus in scaling up and institutionalizing the provision of counseling and testing in the standard package of health services.

Read more about IMPACT Project accomplishments and lessons learned in Ethiopia by downloading the PDF above.