Children affected by AIDS
Girls account for 71% of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2016 Lubuto was awarded a DREAMS Innovation Challenge grant to help address the alarmingly high HIV infection rate among girls. Our solution uses public libraries as a platform to keep girls in secondary school and HIV/AIDS-free. Although the grant has now ended, the life-saving programs introduced remain active.
Lubuto’s HIV prevention strategy includes:
Sustainable scholarship support
Role model, peer-to-peer all-male, and family mentoring
Comprehensive and proactive health information and referral services
Family literacy programs
A platform for sexual and reproductive health programming and research
Together, these elements provide an avenue to staying in school, developing SRH and HIV prevention knowledge, re-shaping harmful gender norms, and inspiring adolescent girls and young women to develop ambitious dreams for their futures.
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We celebrated the new Lubuto DREAMS program on February 22nd with a kickoff event at Ngwerere Library in Lusaka. Several hundred children and parents came to learn about our exciting new programs. Scores… Read more