FHI Botswana Country Fact Sheet (April 2011, 637KB)
Let's talk about sex. Youth HIV Prevention Starts with a Conversation
AUGUST 2010 — Adolescents who engage in frank discussions about sexual issues with parents or guardians are less likely to be sexually active early and more likely to adopt preventive behaviors. With FHI's help, these conversations are happening more often in Botswana.
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Families Matter! Curriculum Adapted for Botswana
FEBRUARY 2009 — Originally developed as Parents Matter! by the US CDC, the Families Matter! Program was adapted for use by the Basha Lesedi Project in Botswana to improve the HIV-prevention knowledge and the communication and parenting skills of parents and guardians of 10- to 13-year-olds, as well as other influential adults.
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Basha Lesedi Project (Sept. 2006-Sept. 2011)
The Basha Lesedi Project aims to create environments that support healthy behaviors among youth. It promotes abstinence, delay of sexual debut, faithfulness, and condom use. It also aims to reduce both the number of sexual partners and alcohol abuse, and encourages resistance to peer pressure to engage in potentially harmful behaviors. The project involves influential adults to help create these supportive environments, and urges parents, guardians, and community leaders to support wise choices. Basha Lesedi is funded by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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FHI contributes to Botswana-based HIV prevention clinical trials. We
- Second counselors to a pre-exposure prophylaxis trial for HIV prevention that is funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Train counselors for a range of tasks, including how to educate potential trial participants and how to counsel those participants who are HIV-positive.
The Capacity Building Series documents the experiences of the CAP program in organizational development and building the technical capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) in HIV prevention from 2008-2011.
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Talking about sex in Botswana: social desirability bias and its possible implications for HIV prevention research (The African Journal of AIDS Research, 2006)
Featured Donor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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FHI's office in Botswana is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page.
