Executive summary
For over 8years, FASBEC has been doing great work in strengthening community systems, providing quality and comprehensive community health services in areas of HIV. TB, Malaria, Maternal health, child survival, family planning, nutrition and water and sanitation hygiene. In addition to that, FASBEC has also implemented education projects with focus on improving early grade learning to increase retention in school, and access to quality education to all. This report is meant to highlight the achievements of this organization in the year 2020.
Over the reporting year 2020, FASBEC has implemented up to four grants including, 1) John Snow Inc/USAID-Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services (RHITES) North-Lango, 2) Infectious Diseases Institute/CDC funded Key Population Investment Fund 3) Vitamin Angel and 4) AIDS Healthcare Foundation emergency fund for COVID-19 service improvement.
The RHITES, N-Lango project “Community Health Integration for Sustainable Outcomes” (CHISO) was implemented in three districts of Lango region Alebtong, Amolator, and Dokolo. The project is focusing on family health interventions for maternal newborn, child and adolescent health, family planning, Nutrition, Malaria and WASH at community level. Implementation has been in collaboration with the respective District Local governments engaging 17 sub-counties, 23 health facilities and a total of 240 Village Health Team members and 60 youth peers. Significate improvement was registered in ANC1, ANC1in first trimester, PNC, immunization coverage in the target districts, family planning access, especially at community level, male engagement, and basic nutrition for both adults and children under 5. Many of the households in these three districts of Dokolo, Amolatar and Alebtong managed to get hand washing facilities and this helped to improve people’s hygiene.
The IDI – KPIF project under CDC funding aimed at improving access to HIV prevention, testing and retention on Anti-retroviral drugs to achieve viral suppression among the KPs in Pakwach District. Over the six months of implementation, FASEBC was able to identify 305 (76%) of the targeted KPs (only FSWs). These were all tested for HIV and educated on family planning and also better ways of sustaining their livelihoods. The project established adherence support groups to continually provide counseling and promote healthy behaviors to prevent re-infection and spreading HIV. The HIV negative FSWs were also engaged in peer support group meetings aimed at promoting healthy living to maintain their negative status. The project was implemented through peer leaders trained at the start of the project who reached their fellow FSWs with information and services.
During the COVID-19 lockdown phase in the country, senior management sourced for funding to facilitate and support key activities in the districts of implementation. The AIDS Healthcare Fund (AHF) was able to support project activities including; procurement of protective gears such as masks, sanitizers for use during community engagement activities, procurement of megaphones which were essential in mobilizing communities to continue accessing health services and clarifying to the communities that health facilities were still functional with primary services and also facilitated transportation through fuel donations to the districts to support referrals especially of pregnant women in emergency state or children.
FASBEC senior management team has progressed in resource mobilization and by end of 2020 has secured funding from two USAID projects (JSI/RHITES, N – Lango and Pathfinder / Family Planning Activity).
Regards,
Vicky Pros Abenakyo
Executive Director
Family Strength for a Better Child
