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| Project Name: | Community-Based Response to HIV/AIDS (COMBAR-AIDS) |
| Project Description: |
As a complement to hospital-based interventions, CARE will increase service utilization and ARV adherence through supporting community-driven responses to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. CARE’s proposed activities will contribute to efforts to provide care and support for people who are infected and affected in Rwanda including counseling, income generating activities, training of volunteers on quality home-based care, and financial support for access to ARVs. Such activities are in line with those proposed in the Government of Rwanda’s Multisectoral Plan to Fight HIV/AIDS implementation manual. The project’s objectives are to:
1. To empower and strengthen the capacity of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, especially OVCYW, to meet their basic needs and realise their rights to health, education, and economic security.
ï‚· Increase the human rights awareness and strengthen capacities of PLWAs and OVCYW in dialogue, negotiation and advocacy and conflict management for rights realization.
ï‚· Support public awareness and advocacy campaigns by membership-based organizations (e.g. PLWA and OVCYW Associations, Networks, etc).
ï‚· Increase sustained access to basic and life skills (HIV/AIDS, nutrition, entrepreneurial and business skills, vocational training) education
ï‚· Increase sustainable access to community savings and loan schemes and IGAs to facilitate economic security, especially access to prepaid health insurance and ARVs.
2. To reinforce and promote community solidarity for the inclusion, care and support of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, especially OVCYW.
ï‚· Facilitate community-based processes for analyzing the underlying causes of HIV/AIDS and its consequences and developing and operationalizing effective and appropriate community-driven response and preparedness plans to reduce and mitigate its impacts.
ï‚· Increase the commitment and capabilities of local community, religious and other opinion leaders as well as key public officials, alongside infected and affected people, to provide leadership in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support activities.
ï‚· Foster an enabling environment for experience sharing and mutual learning and interaction amongst infected and uninfected people in order to reduce stigma and discrimination and promote widespread ownership of VCT and ARV access and adherence.
3. To strengthen the capacity of local government and civil society to advocate for and provide quality services that respond to the needs and rights of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, especially OVCYW
ï‚· With greater effective demand (see Objective #1) and community solidarity (Objective #2), increase sustained:
- use of VCT services for people living in project area;
- access and adherence to ARVs, quality home based care and psychological support for PLWAs.
- access to mental and physical health services through pre-paid health insurance and links to services providers; and
- access to clean water and support leading to food and nutritional securityby assisting local civil society and government institutions (including CBOs, FBOs, local NGOs, CPLS, CDLS, Butare medicine faculty, etc.) to gain the required knowledge, skills and means to effectively respond to increasing demands for services from PLWHAs and OVCYW in particular and the community in general.
 Facilitate the establishment and use of accountability mechanisms that allow constituencies, especially PLWHAs and OVCYW, to express their views and aspirations on service providers’ interventions. |
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