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| ORGANISATION: | PROJECT HOPE |
| AREA: | NEZA, MEXICO CITY |
| GRANT PERIOD: | 2006-2008 |
| BENEFICIARIES: | 7,500 YOUNG PEOPLE |
Home to 20 million people, the Mexico city metropolitan area is the most densely populated in the world. One in 500 Mexicans live with HIV/AIDS but the majority are unaware of their infection.
Neza is the fourth largest city in Mexico and forms part of eastern Mexico City metropolitan area, yet Neza’s two million residents benefit little from its infrastructure of basic HIV services due to distance and poor public transport. Instead they rely on a patchwork of government-run Urban Health Centres, public and private hospitals all mostly operating independently of one another.
EJAF is supporting a consortium of partners from the government and private sector, led by Project Hope Mexico, to establish a formal referral system across all clinics and hospitals in Neza; the healthcare personnel who work within them, and the patients who receive treatment.
In its first year, the programme has treated more than double the number of healthcare personnel working with HIV positive people, including pregnant mothers, and has increased the target number of people trained on stigma free HIV testing through government clinics by 50%.
Over 14,000 people have received referral through the new system.
EJAF has also secured a donation of 3,000 rapid oral swab HIV test kits from OraSure which has enabled the establishment of an HIV testing network.