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 Subproject 2

HIV Mitigation in East West

Corridor
„ Post construction project to reduce HIV risk and
vulnerability associated with the East West Economic
Corridor
„ Strengthen local and community response to HIV
„ Strengthen cross-border collaboration for HIV prevention
„ Implementing over 2 years (2009-2011)
„ Target groups are ethnic minority people in two provinces:
Bru/Van Kieu group
„ Location: 2 districts in Savannakhet and 2 district in Quang
Tri province

Partnership Arrangement
Focal points: Focal points: Quang Tri
Savannakhet PCCA – PAC – Dr. Nguyen Ngoc
Dr. Ketsaphone N. Hieu

Cross-border biannually meetings

WVA VAAC
CHAS
SP2 Team Quang Tri
Savannakhet
PCCA PAC

Darkong
Phine Sepone Huong Hoa
district
district District district
health center
health health office health center
office

* Commune level

* Hamlet/village level * Hamlet/village level

 Subproject 2:
Post construction HIV prevention on the East West Corridor

Component 1 Component 2
Information,
Advocacy and Education and
Capacity Bahavior
building Change
Communication
Component 3 Component 4
Strengthening
Access to Monitoring and
Medical Evaluation
services
 Component 1: Advocacy and
capacity building
„ A progressive series of technical training activities to strengthen
skills of District and local health workers in syndromic treatment of
STIs and HIV prevention programs (4 training in Laos and 7 training
in Vietnam)

„ Four skills development training events and capacity building

program building on the traditional strengths of Bru/Van Kieu
culture

„ Other capacity building activities such as dissemination

workshops/meetings, basic research skills, monitoring and
evaluation, materials development for Bru people.

„ Steering committee meetings: 2 cross-border steering committees

(biannually meetings), 4 in country steering committee and a cross-
border Bru/Van Kieu volunteers meeting

Component 2: Education and

Behavior Change Communication
„ Network of 26 Bru/Van Kieu volunteers
„ Collected cultural stories
„ Skills training courses and on-the-job
training.
„ Develop 1st CD/DVD drama in Van kieu
language – in progress.
Component 3: Strengthening
Access to STI service
„ Conducted 2 STI syndrome checks-up
in 4 districts
„ Included STI related messages in radio
scripts for drama sound files and DVD
Component 4: Monitoring and
Evaluation
„ Baseline survey report: submitted to
ADB by Dec 2010.
„ Ethnography study report: submitted to
ADB this month.
„ DMF and PPMS
„ PPMS training for local partners in two
provinces