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HIV and AIDS, sexual health and children and their families

Save the Children has improved the knowledge and skills on safe sex practices of many thousands of women in sex work, their clients and men who have sex with men, distributing several million condoms in places considered ‘hotspots’ for commercial sex.

We have also:

• trained hundreds of young people who are not in schools or formal employment on how to stay safe from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI);
• worked with members of the police and other service providers in preventing HIV;
• provided drop-in centres, voluntary counseling and testing, and STI treatment clinical services to hundreds of clients suffering from STI; and provided a referral service for medical treatment, welfare and legal processes.

Our HIV and AIDS programme is based in Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Kainantu, Goroka, and rural Ungai -Bena District. Save the Children’s work contributes to arresting the growth of the HIV epidemic in PNG and thus helps in reducing the impacts of HIV and AIDS on the lives of children.

The Youth Outreach Project

Globally young people are at heightened vulnerability to HIV, accounting for 50% of all HIV infections, and 5,000 – 6,000 become newly infected every day.  YOP aims to reduce the negative impacts of HIV and AIDS in PNG by improving safe sex practices and well-being amongst out-of-school and jobless youth (15 – 25 year-olds).

The project works through recruiting, training and supporting teams of youth peer educators to disseminate messages about safe sex, build knowledge and skills, distribute condoms and information, education and communication materials, and to provide basic psychosocial support and referral to service providers on a peer to peer basis. 

The Poro Sapot Project

The Poro Sapot Project aims to reduce the negative impacts of HIV and AIDS in PNG by improving safe sex practices and well-being amongst two key vulnerable groups, women in sex work and men who have sex with men. 

Peer-mediated outreach prevention strategies (including condom promotion and word-of-mouth dissemination of safe sex messages) are complemented by strategies to increase access to health service providers, improve the skills and knowledge of the target groups, and advocate for the protection of rights with police and others.

Tingim Laip Project

This project combats HIV and STI transmission at specific sites like major towns and transport routes where transmission is known to be highly prevalent.

PNG-Australia Sexual Health Improvement Project

Save the Children works in partnership with Government services to improve the prevention and management of common STI among young people and vulnerable groups, aiming to introduce STI/ VCT services at a Lopi urban clinic in Goroka, strengthen existing services at the Kainantu White House STI clinic, and strengthen services at Segerei clinic in rural Bena sub-district.