The Challenges of HIV / AIDS Program Implementation in Addis Ababa City Administration with Particular Reference to Lideta Sub City
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2010-06
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The study was designed to explore the 'Challenges of HIV / AIDS
Program Implementation in Addis Ababa City Administration, Lideta
Sub-city'. It was mainly focusing on the challenges of coordination and
collaboration within and across different organizations which were
working against the exponential spread of HIV/AIDS. To conduct the
research, mixed research approach was employed to triangulate one
set of finding against the others. The subjects of the study were ten
sub-cities in Addis Ababa city Administration. From them Lideta sub city
was selected purposefully. In this sub-city, there were nine kebeles
from which eighteen health supervisors and nine Kebele Health Office
Heads; four directors and four core processors of HC; four AntiHIV/
AIDs associations (chairpersons, secretaries and cashiers, totally
twelve persons); four Faith-based organizations one from each
(Orthodox Christian, Catholic Christian, Protestant and Muslim); eight
representative from private higher clinics and six NGOs who were
working against HIV/AIDS in the Lideta sub-city were selected by using
available sampling technique. This was because they were manageable
sizes to the researcher.
Data were mainly collected from 65 respondents using
questionnaire for quantitative research and key interviews (4 top level
NGO Chairpersons, 2 AAHAPCO office heads,1 sub-city HO head) and
two Focus Group Discussions (male FGD and female FGD separately) .
Frequency tables were used to see the rate of repetitions and
interaction of the dependent and independent variables. All the
gathered information was tallied and converted to percentiles.
Percentile was used to compute in accordance with each category.
The general results of the study revealed that though commendable
achievements have been obtained, there are still gray areas that should
be addressed meticulously by all government and NGOs. A case in
point was that, most of the strategies and programs seemed to lack
coordination and collaboration within and across different organizations
Based on the overall results, it was recommended that both
governmental and non-governmental organizations should create
formalized system of communication, coordinated approach to the
service, comprehensive client centered approaches and services to
combat the ravages of HIV/AIDS pandemics easily.
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AIDS Program Implementation in Addis Ababa City, Reference to Lideta Sub City