Youth Engage Trains 70 Adolescents Girls & Young Women On HIV, SRHR

Youth Engage Zimbabwe, in partnership with her Her Voice Fund and Zimbabwe Community Health Intervention Research Health (ZiCHIRe), have kick-started HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) training for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW). By Patricia Mashiri The inaugural training was held in Harare South where a total 70 AGYW aged between 15 to 27 were trained while more other trainings are already lined up for other parts of the country.The trainings are meant to increase utilization of equitable SRHR and HIV services by vulnerable AGYW, improve delivery of…

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Consultations Around Youth Engagement In Global Fund Grant Kick-Off

YOUTH Engage Zimbabwe, together with Country Coordinating Mechanism (CMM) to end HIV, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, have embarked on massive youth consultations following a Global Fund award to Zimbabwe  of US$75.073 million which is aimed at strengthening community health systems and constructing an improved resilient to deal with the effects of COVID-19. By Patricia Mashiri The dialogues seek amongst other things  to engage civil society and young people to come up with priorities submission that will be included in the C19RM request proposal leading to strengthening of community health systems…

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Her Voice Fund Projects Make Inroads Despite COVID-19

AT least six organizations that received small grants from the Her Voice Fund successfully implemented a number Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and capacity building initiatives in communities they were operating in despite the restrictions on movement and travel that characterised the year 2020 at the back of a raging COVID-19 pandemic. By Michael Gwarisa The HER Voice Fund grant was allocated by the Global Fund and set aside to support meaningful community engagements and leadership of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in a bid help reduce new HIV infections…

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