OUR WORK

Funded through Pepfar, this project provides training for healthcare providers. In addition, Nkaikela meets with a variety of different Gaborone organizations to spread messages of testing and treatment. Nkaikela is involved in the District Multisexual AIDS Committee in Tlokweng and Mogoditshane.

Through Advocacy, we will promote political support through champions, sensitization events, media work, and policy analyses. Social mobilization, awareness creation and education of communities, leaders, law enforcement, will be complemented by strengthening referral systems for SGBV and empowering KPs with skills to participate in decision making.

Under LINKAGES, the FHI 360-led team will accelerate the ability of governments, organizations working with key populations at risk of HIV, and private-sector providers to plan and implement services that reduce HIV transmission among key populations and their sexual partners and extend the lives of those already living with HIV. Project activities will enhance the HIV prevention and care cascade by increasing reach to key populations most at risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV, promoting routine HIV testing and counseling, and actively enrolling those with HIV into care and support interventions that enable them to remain in care.

The project also will help countries use and scale up evidence-based approaches to service provision; help key populations mobilize and advocate for changes in laws and the conduct of police, health care workers and policymakers; and work with governments to make programs sustainable for the long term.

This project includes ongoing outreach at hotspots. Our peer counselors make contact with female sex workers educating them and informing them of service opportunities of testing, treatment and oral health.

The overall purpose of the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) is to develop and support partnerships, harmonize, coordinate and facilitate implementation of the national response to HIV and AIDS. NACA has the responsibility to facilitate planning for HIV and AIDS at all levels. This includes formulation and facilitation of national strategies, policies and laws that pertain to HIV and AIDS. Development of the National HIV and AIDS Policy, the National Strategy for BCIC or any other national processes that require the actions and support of all stakeholders is spearheaded by NACA as a core responsibility.

This project includes distribution of male condoms, female condoms, lubricants and information materials. Peer counselors distribute condoms at hot spots. In addition, there are drop in hours at Nkaikela to pick up condoms for free.