My name is Oscar Chiueva, and I am the deputy corps commander for TCE Namibia. TCE stands for Total Control of the Epidemic.  It’s creating awareness in the communities about HIV and AIDS.

What is special is that we recruit a person in the particular field that he or she is coming from. One reason is that people know that person very well and they trust that person very well. 

The field officers have all got bicycles because we know very well that some of our villages, you know, they are very big and they have to cover from this side of the village to the other, then they need the bicycle to reach there. A field officer is going from one house to another until he covers all the houses and the field officer has to speak to these 2,000 people individually so that there is not a group discussion where you have some people say what they know or what they think about HIV AIDS. We personalize HIV so that you speak about HIV AIDS from the personal perspective.

We are now in our second year and we could see that it works because in the communities we have established a lot of support to groups. We can see that people now they are open to talk about their HIV status be it positive or negative.