Coordinator declares 'o icheke project' a success

"The goal of this project was to decrease the incidents of Multi-Concurrent Partnerships (MCP) among the targeted audience aged 15-49 years from 25 percent to 15 percent by the end of year 2011, by reaching 5,500 youth and 1800 Adults," said Mononyane, the project coordinator at Bopaganang Basha and Ghetto Artists. She explained that the first thing that was done on the project was community research leading to the development of a baseline that was assessed in three phases of indicators.

She said the first baseline outcome indicator focused on the percentage of people aged 15-49 who agreed that having more than one sexual partner at the same time increases the spread of HIV. The baseline value was 93.3 percent by April 2010 against a target of 96 percent by March 2010. The actual results were 94.7 percent - 93.4 percent males and 95.7 females. The findings prove that even though the exact target was not met, the results indicate that more females are involved with more than one sexual partner than men.