MOSAIC is heading to Durban, South Africa, for the 11th SA AIDS conference. This year’s conference theme: Act, connect, and end the epidemic. We invite conference attendees to join us for the following sessions.
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Category: AGYW
YOUTH LEADERS AND USAID CELEBRATE YOUTH IN DEVELOPMENT
Today, nearly one third of the global population are youth ages 10-29. Their voices and skills help propel USAID’s development work and create positive change in their communities and around the world. In celebration of the first anniversary of USAID’s updated Youth in Development Policy, USAID invited youth leaders and USAID leadership to talk about the importance of youth engagement in the health sector.
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CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF MOSAIC’S NEXTGEN SQUAD
This month marks the first anniversary of the formation of MOSAIC’s NextGen Squad. Today, we celebrate their first year as a team by highlighting just a few of their many accomplishments and sharing some of their reflections on the future of MOSAIC and HIV prevention.
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THE GEN-N CAMPAIGN: YOUNG PEOPLE LEAD THE WAY TO AN HIV-FREE NIGERIA
Gen-N celebrates the brave choice to take action toward an HIV-negative generation. Everyone can be a Gen-N hero by supporting young people to access health services such as HIV testing and PrEP, celebrating youth-friendly health care workers, and listening to young people’s concerns without judgment.
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LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS: PREPARING TO SUPPORT SUSTAINED ACCESS AND EFFECTIVE USE OF HIV PREVENTION PRODUCTS
The success of efforts to introduce new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) methods for HIV prevention, such as the PrEP ring and injectable CAB PrEP, will also rely on local partners. That’s why one of MOSAIC’s five strategic objectives is dedicated to strengthening local partner capacity to design and implement high-quality product introduction activities and research.
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CHANGING THE DYNAMIC: HOW THE HIV PREVENTION AMBASSADOR TRAINING PACKAGE IS ENHANCING YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE
The HIV Prevention Ambassador Training Package is designed to support the meaningful engagement of youth “Ambassadors” in helping adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain free from HIV. Recognizing young people as full partners in HIV prevention is a key step toward equalizing the response to the epidemic — today’s World AIDS Day theme and call to action.
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PARENTS, PARTNERS, AND PEERS: THE ROLE OF INFLUENCERS IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ AND YOUNG WOMEN’S PrEP USE
We know that adolescent girls and young women live complex lives full of important relationships that shape the decisions they make. Yet too often efforts to generate demand for PrEP fail to reach beyond the individual user to her support system—those trusted people in her life who she leans on when making important choices. But demand generation for PrEP is evolving.
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“LIVE YOUR LIFE OUT LOUD”: CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD
Today is the 10th anniversary of International Day of the Girl Child, a time to celebrate girl changemakers and leaders, focus attention on issues that matter to girls, and amplify girls’ voices on the global stage. To mark the occasion, MOSAIC staff reflect on their own girlhood and give advice to their former selves.
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EMPATHWAYS: DEALING A WINNING HAND TO YOUTH-CENTERED HEALTH SERVICES
Any two people can use Empathways together. But in the global HIV care, prevention, and treatment community, Jhpiego has leveraged an adapted version of the tool, using it to bring together groups of people who have relationships that are uncomfortable at best, and downright traumatizing at worst.
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AIDS 2022 KEY TAKEAWAYS
For the MOSAIC project team, the AIDS 2022 conference set the stage for embracing the introduction of new biomedical HIV prevention products and generating evidence on how to support choice and effective use. We attended the conference virtually and took away three key messages that resonate with our work on MOSAIC.
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