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OUTREACH
Health education & mobilization
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.
CLINICAL SERVICES
Hiv testing, prep, cerical cancer screening
NYG has a strong ongoing outreach program targeting female sex workers and men who frequent bars and shebeens. A total of volunteers form NYG peer education. All are trained in the basic HIV/AIDS prevention messages and other related diseases.
CONDOM PROGRAMME
Education and distribution
NYG distributes condoms to local community members frequenting these places, including truck drivers at the border gate. To strengthen NYG’s condom distribution campaign, NYG has trained bar owners and tenders on condom distribution and the importance of availability at all times.
PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUPPORT
CHANGING LIVES THORUGH GROUP COUNSELLING THERAPY
Ikageng Bomme group counselling has been identified as a best practice by USAID in 2012. It has been replicated in various sites in Botswana. The logic of using the mutual aid process rests on the belief that women are proud, resourceful, and aware of personal and systemic oppression. The mutual aid process fosters unity and hope as well as collective support. It encourages information sharing and problem solving. It also relies on effectiveness of strength-in-numbers to achieve meaningful behavioral change. The group work holds great potential for assisting and supporting women sex workers as they navigate the challenges of their trade. This group approach provides counseling sessions with FSWs that focus on behavior change, decision-making, and removing barriers to engaging in responsible sexual relationships.
