Amoru AIDS Support Community Initiative plans to start a lifesaving skills project for youth in eastern Uganda through conducting training for youth both in school and out of school. The target beneficiaries will be called the AIDS Challenged Youth Club. The AIDS Challenged Youth Club is a youth specific pilot project aimed at addressing sexual reproductive health issues of the youth with regards to the current AIDs epidemic in Otuboi Sub County/Otuboi Town Council in Kaberamaido district.
Like many Sub Counties and District across Uganda, the increase trend in number pf adolescent and youth who are getting infected with HIV every in Otuboi Sub County and Otuboi Town council in Kaberamaido district in eastern Uganda remains very high and this is evident at the health facility and community level because we are registering more new HIV infections and HIV/AIDs related deaths because of stigma and discrimination. It's estimated that about 25 adolescent and youth get infected with HIV
Strategy (I)- Forming The AIDs Challenge Youth Clubs (ACYC) for conducting Community Mobilization and Sensitization of adolescents and youth in school and out of school to promote behavior change in villages, schools and churches in Otuboi Sub County and Otuboi Town Council. Strategy (II) - Strengthening Peer Education on AIDs and Reproductive Health (SPEARH) for adolescent and youth in school and out of school. Strategy (III) - Strengthening Community Client - Led Adherence Counseling (CCL
Within one year of the start, the project will have reached out to 7280 adolescents and youth in school and out of school in Otuboi Sub County and Town council helping them to reduce new HIV infections through adaptation of safer sexual behaviors and reduction in risk taking behaviors. The project will also increase coverage and utilization of abstinence, faithfulness and, condom use. The project will also lead to reduction of teenage pregnancies, mother to child HIV/AIDs transmission
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
