"I wish to register appreciation for the work done by GTZ, now GIZ in HIV &AIDS, Adolescents and Young People, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Health in general and Gender both nationally as well as in the target regions" statement by the TACAIDS Executive Chairperson Dr. Fatma Mrisho duing the launch of booklet # 13 Young People Living with HIV&AIDS 11th January 2012.
On behalf of TGPSH, the Swiss Centre for International Health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute was given the mandate to collaborate and technically support the MoEVT to implementing the approach: Prevention and Awareness at Schools of HIV & AIDS (PASHA).
The approach is integrated within the MoEVT structure and supports the following main activities:
Over 1,500 school counselors and more than 4,000 peer educators have been trained making the PASHA approach the most prominent school-based HIV prevention approach in Tanzania.
Evaluation results show that teachers’ attitudes did change throughout the PASHA training and the exposure to counselling - a prerequisite to influencing the students.
Data from 22 schools where the PASHA programme is implemented show a marked and continued decline of teenage pregnancies from 41 in 2006 to 12 in 2009. Heads of schools acknowledge that PASHA greatly contributed to the decrease.
As of 2010, other actors are supporting/funding the PASHA implementation, i.e.Tanzanian government, USAID, Restless Development, AMREF, and Médicos del Mundo outside the TGPSH regions.
The activities are monitored on a yearly basis by ESMIS, the MoEVT’s monitoring system with an internet-based quarterly reporting system in place.
