ROADS II Project’s behaviour monitoring survey at final stages

FHI360’s ROADS to a Healthy Future (ROADS II)—a multi-sectoral project funded by the US Agency for International  Development (USAID) –this week shared with stakeholders a draft report of the on-going behaviour monitoring survey (BMS).

Official finding results of the survey that focused in five sites (Kahama, Makambako, Mwanza, Port of Dar es salaam and Tunduma) will be released soon after the incorporation of the inputs obtained from various stakeholders during a dissemination workshop held in Dar es Salaam on Thursday.

Dr Ruberintwari, ROADS II Country Manager--demonstrating on SafeTStop concept

According to Dr Melchiade Ruberintwari, ROADS II Country Manager, the main objective of the survey was to provide HIV/AIDS programme managers and policy makers with information they need to plan and implement interventions, including resource mobilization and allocation, M & E of the existing programmes and the design of new and effective strategies for combating the epidemic at the site level.

The survey focused on six population groups covered by the project’s HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; male truckers, female sex workers, women in low-income households, in-school youths, out-of-school youth and people living with HIV.

Meanwhile, Roads II project uses a concept in which a cluster composed of homogenous groups come together to implement coordinated activities in a specific programme area.  Different interventions are implemented through the clusters at selected SafeTStop sites depending on the needs of the area.

The SafeTStop concept reaches key and other vulnerable populations. Generally, the main aim of the ROADS II project is to break the chain of HIV transmission along the transport corridor

In his opening remarks, TACAIDS’ Director of Monitoring and evaluation Dr Jerome Kamwela who represented Dr Raphael Kalinga, the Director of Policy in the commission encouraged FHI 360/ROADS II project to finalize the document and package it in a way that it can be disseminated to wide audiences including at the sites where the survey was conducted.

“I encourage you to share your feedback so that together we can enrich this document and the process,” said Dr Kamwela. 

Dr Kamwela of TACAIDS

I want to reiterate the Government’s call to all stakeholders to play your part and make the reduction of new HIV infections a historic success, involving all Tanzanians, adults and youth, married and unmarried, HIV positive or HIV negative. The prevention of HIV infection concerns everyone, and together we can make a difference, he stated.

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