QUARTER REPORTING ON: JANUARY – MARCH / 2023

KOMANI KASARO
DACA / KASAMA DISTRICT

Contributing to Legacy Goal #6: Achieve HIV Epidemic Control, Reduce HIV new infections from 48,000 to less than 5000.
All the below-mentioned activities contributed to the legacy goal (#6) in that plans for the HIV prevention and treatment interventions
were targeted at locations and populations where the risk of new infections is high.

Achievements
Strategic Focus Planned Activities /
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Area Interventions
Implemented Activities /
Outcomes
Interventions
1. Governance and Preparing and coordinating
leadership DHAC programs  DHAC planning
meeting for quarter 1 Meeting to be held during the second week
of 2023 has not yet of April, 2023
been held
2. Strategic HIV The Local authority A total 56,800 male condoms were
Prevention Condom Programming. distributed condoms in distributed
Interventions strategic places in the district (Data from health facilities was not
available)

Engaging mobile populations
( Munada, truck and bus drivers)
The DACA arranged for
meeting with mobile
populations ( i.e mobile
traders (munada), bus and
truck drivers) with a view to
start providing HIV services
to them
A local partner namely John Snow Health
will be offering free HIV services ( PreP,
Condom distribution, Counselling and
Testing) at chikumanino bus station and
selected areas were the mobile traders will
be taking their merchandise

5. Strategic Identification of key stakeholders DACA had meetings with The partners have been added to the
Information and in the district two new stakeholders in the Kasama DHAC and have been integrated in
Knowledge district namely John Snow the District HIV annual work plan
Management
Health (JSH) and USAID
funded project called
Empowered Children and
Adolescents Program (ECAP)

6. Sustainable Resource mobilization for HIV DACA organized a Meeting Meeting resolved that the funds will be
Financing activities with Departments of recovered at the time contractors were being
Engineering services and paid. Accounts department was brought on
planning and information board to monitor the payments
systems to strategize on how
to recover funds meant for
HIV mainstreaming in CDF
capital projects
 Implementation of proposed activities to
DHAC has outlined a number commence once the funds are available
of income generating
activities aimed at raising
resources for HIV activities
as well as lessen the
dependence on partners; some
of the proposed activities
include chicken rearing,
holding of entertainment
shows etc.

7. Activities from Below are some of the proposed

Districts / Local activities by the DACA :
Authorities
Revision of HIV workplace policy

Formulation of HIV workplace

support groups among Council
employees

Introduction of HIV service

provision days at the workplace

8. Challenges:
 Lack of Transport for
visitation to the
communities as HIV
response vehicle has
broken down
 Inadequate funding for
operations (DACA’s office
 and DHAC programs)

9. Recommendatio  PACAs office to take keen interest in the mainstreaming of HIV services in capital projects such as CDF
ns: and road projects
 Councils to allocate sufficient funds for operations of the DACA and DHAC
 Council to expedite the repair the HIV response vehicle