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The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to affect every level in society in Lesotho as it exacts its toll on the population in terms of death, disability, lost productivity and numbers of orphans and vulnerable children. The community health and economic development project develops an HIV/AIDS-competent and economically productive society. Volunteers focus on preventing and mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS, strengthening community-based organizations, youth development and skills promotion, and business and economic development. HIV/AIDS Volunteers are working at the village and district levels to provide HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs. In all 10 districts of Lesotho, Volunteers in this program provide sustainable, effective outreach to youth, entrepreneurs, and income-generation groups.
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Tackling HIV and AIDS continues to be a high priority for Irish Aid in Lesotho. The approach is a comprehensive one, which places equal emphasis on preventing the spread of the pandemic and on the care and treatment of those who have fallen victim to the virus. Irish Aid is supporting the work of UNAIDS who are assisting the National AIDS Commission to develop an urgently needed national HIV and AIDS policy and strategy. Irish Aid is ... supporting civil society organisations whose efforts are focused on addressing the drivers of the pandemic including weak prevention, migrant labour, and gender inequality. In 2007 Irish Aid spent €1.1 million to support efforts to tackle the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Lesotho.
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Rural Self-Help Development Association (RSDA) strives for self-organised community organisations that are able to run their own affairs so they can work towards improving the standard of living and contribute to poverty reduction in Lesotho. In order to achieve this, RSDA assists small-scale farmers to improve their quality of life using sustainable agricultural practices. This is achieved through food security activities with a focus on agriculture production practices which use low external inputs and restore soil and natural resources. Skillshare International has placed a development worker at RSDA to support the development of a long-term fundraising strategy and strengthen the organisation's capacity.
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At the beginning of January, PIH’s project in Lesotho marked the completion of its first half year of work at the mountain health center in Nohana. At the same time, the project was gearing up to begin training and treatment at a second remote mountain site before the end of January.
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Ireland has been the leading donor in the education sector in Lesotho for over 30 years. In 2007 Irish Aid supported the Lesotho Ministry of Education in its work to improve the quality of basic education by providing staffing support for the Ministry, funding the provision of learning materials and assisting the Ministry in providing HIV and AIDS awareness training to both teachers and pupils. Irish Aid spent €2.4 million on support to the Education sector in 2007.
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