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| Project Name: | AIDS Prevention and Positive Living (APPL) |
| Project Description: |
The goal of APPL is to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS by working directly with those social groups most
vulnerable and by empowering local communities to cope with the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS. The groups
include migrants and other highly mobile workers, their sexual partners and their families; commercial sex workers; in and out of school youth and low-income women. Up to 240,000 people living mostly in four rural districts in northern Inhambane province in southern Mozambique will benefit from this project.
Communities Responding to HIV/AIDS Epidemic (CORE) Initiative (MOZ050) (2003-2005)
CORE is a USAID global initiative aimed at supporting an inspired, effective and inclusive response to the
causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS by strengthening the capacity of community and faith-based groups
worldwide. CORE's main approach is to leverage existing efforts, while catalyzing and encouraging new efforts
through diverse and innovative partnerships in the areas of community-based prevention, stigma reduction, and care
and support to PLWHA and their families. CARE International is leading this initiative in partnership with the World
Council of Churches, the International Center for Research on Women, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, and the
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs. In this start-up phase,
CARE Mozambique will make up to 15 awards to local organizations in the amount of about $5,000 each for work in
the area of reducing HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
APPL in Inhambane Province (MOZO50) (2003-2006)
The goal of this project funded by CIDA and CARE Canada is to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and mitigate
its impact on those infected and affected by reducing HIV infection among young people aged 10 to 24. APPL's
objectives are to establish and initiate operations of an comprehensive integrated network with a mobile unit that will
provide counseling, testing, care, treatment, and educational and life skills outreach programs, as well as to
strengthen existing health services. This integrated network center will complement, and be integrated into, CARE's
ongoing HIV/AIDS APPL project by reinforcing efforts to: 1) ensure that the majority of young men and women
between the ages of 10 and 24 in the project zone have access to the knowledge, skills and services needed to
protect themselves from HIV infection; 2) reduce the vulnerability of young women who are at high risk of HIV
infection. An estimated 52,000 young people (about 70 percent of youth aged 10 to 24 in the four districts in northern Inhambane province) will be reached by this project. This number will include 29,000 women. CARE expects that an additional 36,000 adults will benefit from this project. |
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