GgÁkar CMnYyekµgC MTg;RkIRk Welcome to SIT Save Incapacity Teenagers

GgÁkar CMnYyekµgCMTg ;RkIRk Address: Nrd 6A, Kroum Village, Prek Anhchanh Commune, Mukompoul District, Kandal Province. CCC Box Telephone: (855) Director: Mr. Chhun Roeurn, Save Incapacity Teenagers

Integration Care and Prevention for PLHIV and OVC Project (ICP) in Mukompoul district, Kandal Province. Supported by: Khana / Global Fund Round 5&7 Current Project HIV Prevention for EWs and their Partners Project in Prekleap, Ruseykeo, Phnom Penh. Supported by : USAID, Community Reach through Pact Cambodia

Current Project Social Marketing for Condom to IDSW Project in Prekleap, Ruseykeo, Phnom Penh. Supported by : USAID through PSI Cambodia Social Marketing for Condom for MSM Project in Ruseykeo, Phnom Penh, Mukompoul and Khach Kandal district, Kandal Province. Supported by : Global Fund Round 7 through PSI Cambodia

Contents 1.Background 2.ICP for PLHIV and OVC Project. 3.HIV Prevention for EWs and their partners Project 4.Social Marketing for Condom to IDSW Project 5.Social Marketing for Condom for MSM Project

1.Background Save Incapacity Teenager is an independent local non-profit, non-partisan, non-government organization, which regards no race, nationality and religion. It was founded on 25 November 1998 and was registered by the Ministry of Interior No 625 on 03 August SIT was founded by students, former teachers and community workers with experience working with street children and children in difficult situations.

1.Background Vision Aspiring to a Cambodia where teenagers, youths and their families, who are poor and vulnerable, have effective to live in harmony, peace and to improve their quality life.

1.Background Mission SIT works for the development of Cambodian teenagers, youths, and their families who are poorest and vulnerable, to improve their capacities, well being and health.

1.Background Structure 5 members of Board of Directors and 1Technical Advisor 1 Director 1 Accountant/Admin 1 Program Coordinator 10 Fulltime staffs 13 Peer Facilitators (3 PLHAs ) 97 Peer Educators (6 PLHAs) The total 13 fulltime staffs 110 Peers

2. ICP for PLHIV and OVC Project What we have been doing with PLHIV&OVC for responding to the needs of PLHIV&OVC 2.1. Psychosocial Support: –In the present, SIT’s providing support to a total of 167 PLHIV and 324 OVC (children affected by AIDS) –Referring PLHIV&OVC to received health services as OIs, STD treatment, ARV, VCCT, CD4, TB and PMTCT.

Regular home visits to PLHIV and their families. Regular home visits to OVCs and their families.

Providing advice and information on basic hygiene and sanitation to PLHIV and counseling to PLHIV Providing advice and information on basic hygiene and sanitation to OVC and counseling to OVC.

Positive prevention education on ABC approach for PLHIV to promote healthy reproductive health options at community level. Community education for prevention on ABC approach for general population in community

Organize community events on prevention for ABC approach and raising awareness of issues related to PLHIV&OVC to reduce stigma and discrimination in community.

Joined the events on HIV prevention and raising awareness of issues related to PLHIV &OVC with Networks

Community event for stigma and discrimination for PLHIV and OVC Providing advice to parents on succession planning, especially Memory Book for OVC

Community Placing for children in orphanages, if there are no other alternatives for their care. Working with community/Local Authority to identify foster parents for OVC

Supported Happy happy program for OVC in community to reduce stigma and discrimination.

Providing school clothes and materials to OVC can continue their schooling, school attendance facilitation and school follow up.

Providing training for HCT in home based care, supporting OVC and PLHIV, care givers in self health care.

2.2.Economic support: Supported Income generation activities for PLHIV&OVC.

Providing welfare, funeral, shelter support to PLHIV&OVC and their families.

Organize the Self help group meeting for PLHIV&OVC to share experience and Home base care education

2. Challenges Services of psychosocial, education and economic supported to PLHIV&OVC is still limited. PLHIV&OVC participation in planning and implementing activities is limited – lack of time, lack of acknowledgement of the importance. Culture of hiding status, shy, especially when they effected HIV/AIDS and got sick cause they were been stigma and discrimination.

Challenges Number of PLHA/OVC are increasing and lack of supported from community to PLHA/OVC families. The commitment of Local Authorities in participating to support OVC Memory Book is still limited.

Recommendation Continue to support the on-going project and strengthen more support to services of psychosocial and educations, economic supported to PLHIV&OVC. Strengthen human resource capacity and skills of staff on how to work with PLHIV&OVC to have effectiveness for responding to the fundamental needs, especially transparency, accountabilities. Improving family economic of PLHIV&OVC through providing support vocational training, welfare support, Income generation activities and help them to find marketing opportunities for their productions. Should be have tool kid for PLHIV on stigma and discrimination to educate in community

3. HIV Prevention for EWs and their partners Project From June 2007 to November 2009, SIT’s providing education on HIV prevention to a total of 1120 EWs and 657 their partners

Providing training to 5 PFs and 50 PEs have got capacity Building

Drop-in Centre with Counseling Room (counsel and Refer) and Library with (IEC Materials)

Organise community education and events on prevention for ABC approach and raising awareness of issues related to EWs and their partners to behavior change in community.

Working with community/Local Authority to community education and events

Quarterly Stakeholders meetings in target area Pact Washinton DC and Pact Cambodia go to visit at SIT’s Drop In Center in target area

Quarterly meeting with EW network in target area.

Join activities with Network for advocacy such as World AIDS Day

Community Forum on topic “ We are joining to reduce the stigma and discrimination on EW”

Annual Gathering for EWs and their partners in 2008, who joined from NAA and stakeholders about 150ps

Quiz Show : Ask to clients into EE focus on HIV and Drug prevention

Challenges Culture of hiding status, EWs are still too shy to access services to treat their STIs are VCCT are still limited. EWs and their partners’ participation in planning and implementing activities is limited – lack of time. The commitment of Local Authorities in participating to project is still limited. New EWs just come from countryside to work in EE face to HIV epidemic

Challenges EWs and their sweethearts’ are still believe each others to have sex by not using the condom if they know that the EW have another partners EWs were victim from the owners and supervisors and from community focus on stigma and discrimination The EW can be transient employees and moved from entertainment venue to another entertainment venue every few months from Phnom Penh and to another provinces, so that entertainment owners need new workers to work, they tend to choose the girls from countryside who have low HIV/AIDS knowledge.

Recommendation Continue to support the on-going project and strengthen more support to services of psychosocial and educations supported to EWs. Strengthen the staff’s capacity about right, stigma and discrimination of EW. A need to address primary needs such as social support and access to medical care must be addressed

Recommendation A need to address discrimination and stigma against EWs and their sexual partners. The partners and sweethearts of EWs are feeling stigmatized demonstrated through still hiding their face and getting the limited education from PE and PF due to feeling shy about attending education sessions. A need for increased education among EW and their clients regarding HIV/AIDS, as knowledge regarding transmission is low.