Prevent HIV-AIDS through Awareness in South Sudan

The civil unrest had hindered the progress of HIV-AID Awareness campaign in 2016 and earlier 2017.

At the time of this reporting in 2017:
The armed rebels occupied three-quarter in rural Magwi County where the project is operating. With difficulties, few local educational workshops were carried in areas where internally displaced persons are living. Our team carried two workshops in 2017 even though their life was under threat because to rise HIV-AID awareness is lifesaving. It is important villagers are informed of the danger of HIV-AID and how to avoid it. Since the start of this initiative the rate of catching HIV-AID had dropped, and the rate of blood voluntary testing had gone up.

This project is educating the use of unsafe sex, but more important the villagers to avoid to have multiple partners. Our slogan: one man to one woman! Have a blood test in a same clinic same day!

The slogan of one man to one woman is attracting interest and we are pushing it hard to reach a wider population.

We will send a new field update report in a second quarter to inform you about the impact of your contribution from the ground.

Growing instability triggers new displacement
Fighting between armed groups has driven thousands of people from their villages in Eastern, Central, and Western Equatoria states since the start of January. Several thousand had taken refuge in Uganda.

The Relief Agencies are increasingly concerned at recent growing uncertainty around South Sudan and its serious impact on the civilian population.

UNHCR alerted that localized fighting between rebel armed groups and government soldiers and an apparent breakdown in law and order are being reported in and near Yambio, some 300 kilometers west of Juba.

Sporadic gunfire is commonplace, and there has also been an increase in crime involving car-jackings, attacks on government property, looting of civilian homes and sexual assaults,"