This project supports 100 orphaned children and adolescents living with HIV by addressing trauma, stigma, and discrimination. It provides emergency aid, counseling, treatment education, and life skills training. The initiative aims to empower these youth to lead healthy, dignified lives and become peer educators who positively influence others.
Many children and adolescents are traumatized by the loss of at least one parent to HIV/AIDS and by the knowledge that they carry a life-threatening virus. Orphaned children and adolescents living with HIV face heightened trauma, stigma, and discrimination from their immediate families and communities. They require counseling and support to cope with the medical, social, and psychological impact of HIV, alongside typical teenage challenges.
This project complements government services by providing vulnerable HIV-affected children, adolescents, and their caregivers with emergency support, counseling, and encouragement. It ensures timely adherence to upgraded drug regimens and offers treatment education. Nutritional support is provided, and older adolescents are prepared for adulthood through discussions on puberty, sexuality, relationships, safer sex, and marriage planning by organising monthly Support group meetings.
The project will enable 100 children living with HIV to lead healthy lives, attend school or college regularly, set and pursue future goals, make informed choices, and prevent new infections. They will adopt daily routines of healthy habits and grow up with values that positively influence their peers. Trained youth will emerge as peer educators, impacting thousands of other children living with HIV across the state.
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