First Lieutenant Domingos Soares Godinho was among 20 soldiers who joined the final 3-day facilitator training workshop as part of a CWS-supported information-sharing project about HIV and AIDS for Timor-Leste Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste (F-FDTL) personnel. The initiative, which including military members’ families and neighbors too, started back in 2010 and transitioned to […]
Juliana da Concenca’o is a solider in Timor-Leste’s national defense force based in Hera just outside her country’s capital, Dili. Like thousands of her military peers over many years, Juliana recently joined 15 other soldiers for an info-session about HIV prevention – an issue that remains critical to her and her military colleagues. Led by […]
In preparing to transition leadership for years of HIV education and treatment work to its national counterpart, CWS staff noted that epidemiological information about Timor-Leste defense forces (F-FDTL) personnel is limited to info-data from behavioral surveys done by the University of New South Wales and CWS in 2008 and 2011, respectively. So, before ending its […]
Second Sergeant Rosita Maia Sanches was among 19 F-FDTL soldiers who joined a recent 3-day facilitator training workshop that was part of continuing CWS-supported information-sharing about HIV and AIDS for Timor-Leste army and navy personnel, and for their families and neighbors. Led by the experienced armed forces Master Trainers who have been coached and supported […]
In March (2018) our small CWS Timor Leste team traveled to Oecusse, which is an enclave of about 70,000 people in one of the country’s most isolated district; it is almost entirely land-locked within neighboring West Timor (Indonesia) and has the Savwu Sea on its northern border. Because Timor Leste’s national defense forces are strategically […]
With 16,000+ residents, Baucau is Timor-Leste’s second largest city and, like the country’s much larger capital, Dili, the small city is on the northern coast of Timor island. Baucau is home to a national defense forces base, and the CWS team traveled there recently to support HIV prevention info-sessions as well as routine HIV testing. […]
Recently, the CWS Timor-Leste team took time to reach beyond their national defense forces, on whom they usually focus, to share information about HIV and AIDS and sexual and reproductive health with 16 girls and 15 boys at a youth center in Comoro, a neighborhood in Dili. One participant, 17-year-old high school student Feliza Hau, […]
Second Sergeant Pedro Soares is based at the Timor Leste naval base in Hera, about 40 km outside Dili, and he is one of a new group of HIV prevention facilitators who just completed a training program led by CWS-supported Master Trainers. He now uses his new skills and knowledge to offer HIV prevention information […]
Ana Monica da Silva is married to an Timor Leste soldier and they live in a military housing complex in Baucau, which is the country’s second largest city with about 16,000 people. In September Ms. da Silva joined 25 others for an HIV prevention information-sharing session led by Pvt. Monica Freitas Belo, who had earlier […]