Donors

Major donors include the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, UNICEF, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Global Fund and Procter and Gamble. PSI/Ethiopia’s 2007 revenue budget is $1.9 million (estimated).

Partners

Local partners include Federal and Regional Ministries of Health and of Water Resources, the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Organization, the Ethiopian Public Health Association, the Medical Association of Private Practitioners in Practice and other local agencies.

In 2004, PSI/Ethiopia launched SafeNite, Ethiopia’s first locally branded and commercially available long lasting insecticide treated mosquito net, and now markets a range of brands including fully priced, non-subsidized nets in urban areas, and free nets that are made available in rural areas to vulnerable communities. Nearly one million mosquito nets have now been distributed by PSI in Ethiopia. These activities are supported by branded and generic communications campaigns, including radio, billboard, television and interpersonal communications approaches in multiple languages that also support mosquito nets being distributed for free by the Ministry of Health.

PSI/Ethiopia has programmes in diarrhea prevention, de-worming, salt iodization and pneumonia treatment. In 2006 PSI/ Ethiopia launched two complementary home based water purification products under the brand names WaterGuard and PUR, Purifier of Water®, and has now distributed sufficient product to treat over three billion liters of safe water across Ethiopia. PSI/Ethiopia’s water treatment activities, which included the training of over 5,000 community health agents, formed a critical part of the Ethiopian Government’s efforts to control a national outbreak of acute watery diarrhea in 2006 and 2007. PSI/Ethiopia will launch pre-packaged treatment kits for both pneumonia and de-worming supported by communication campaigns in late 2007, and will support the Ethiopian Government’s universal salt iodization programme through a mass media communication campaign when it launches at the end of 2007.

PSI/Ethiopia has been implementing a workplace HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis education programme since 2005, which has reached around 20,000 employees in over 30 large companies. In 2007 it began promoting mobile voluntary HIV counseling and testing services in partnership with Abt Associates, and is soon to begin a comprehensive programme for the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections with a pre-packaged treatment kit. Also in 2007 PSI/Ethiopia introduced a basic care package to help prevent opportunistic infections such as malaria and diarrhea that can prove fatal for people living with HIV and AIDS. The package, launched in partnership with Save the Children is designed for children living with HIV and AIDS, and includes mosquito nets, water purification systems, soap and other important items, as well as educational messages for the mother.