S03E07(II): Join us for Part II as we dive into candid conversations with young people about mental health and suicide prevention. In this podcast, we explore the challenges, share personal stories, and highlight strategies to support those in need. Together, we can break the silence and foster hope.
S03E07(I): Join us for Part I as we dive into candid conversations with young people about mental health and suicide prevention. In this podcast, we explore the challenges, share personal stories, and highlight strategies to support those in need. Together, we can break the silence and foster hope.
S03E06: Unpacking the You(th) Care Project Mid-Term Report
In this podcast episode, implementing partners will discuss the mid-term review results, including plans to ensure the achievement of targets.
This Midterm review (MTR) was commissioned to act as an essential halfway point evaluation for the ongoing You(th) Care Project and give a clear picture of the project’s progress including impact, outcomes, outputs as well as highlight best practices, gaps and opportunities to inform the second half of the project.
S03E05: The Importance of Peer support and community engagement in enhancing Treatment Outcomes for Young People Living with HIV
Despite the clear need and disproportionate risk, adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYPLHIV) are underserved in the HIV response. Peer support constitutes a crucial form of adolescent and youth-responsive service packages as part of differentiated service deliveries that can support adolescents to access,and maintain treatment.
This edition features young people from across the world weighing in on how peer support has been critical in their personal journeys or those of their peers, and insightful contributions from a healthcare worker.
S03E04: Unpacking UHC HLM 2023 Commitments: "What is in it for young people and what is the role of young people in this going forward”
In this podcast, we will highlight how young people and advocates can strategically leverage these commitments to bring selfcare conversations to the forefront and hold decision makers, leaders and policy makers accountable. With targeted advocacy and collective efforts amongst youth-led networks, activist, advancing the self-care agenda, we are hopeful that selfcare will see its way into the political declaration in the next 2027 UHC HLM. After all, selfcare seeks to ensure that individuals take control of their own health and this is a positive contribution to actualising UHC.
S03E03: Young People Leading Self-Care Advocacy
As young people continue to drive change, it becomes paramount to showcase their efforts in advocating for self-care strategies as a fundamental component of HIV/AIDS management and prevention. This edition aims to highlight how Youth Wise and You(th) Care have navigated the landscape of self-care advocacy, intertwining their work with the central theme of World AIDS Day “Let Communities Lead”.
S03E02: Recognising the Power of Self-Care: A Chat with Experts
Self-care is an essential aspect of maintaining good health. With the help of evidence-based tools like medicines, counselling, diagnostic kits, and digital technologies, individuals can take an active role in their healthcare. This empowers them to be in charge of their own well-being while simultaneously reducing the burden on healthcare systems. In an upcoming episode, mental health advocates and healthcare providers will address the common questions young people have about self-care and the areas where information may be lacking.
S03E01: Achieving UHC for Young People
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to provide affordable and high-quality healthcare to all individuals without causing financial hardship. The principles of equity, non-discrimination, and the right to health ensure that even the most marginalized populations are reached and covered, leaving no one behind. To build equitable health systems, we must give young people a chance to be architects of their future and make sure their voices are heard. Join us in this episode as we explore ways to advance UHC that benefit young people and discuss the linkages between self-care and primary health care. Discover how self-care helps us reach the 95-95-95 targets.
You(th) care project aims to enable adolescents and youth aged 10-25 years, especially girls and other vulnerable adolescents, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to advocate for and practice self-care for their SRHR needs and to increase access to (digital) self-care services and commodities. The project is implemented by 8 partners across the countries and three regional partners.
You(th) care project aims to enable adolescents and youth aged 10-25 years, especially girls and other vulnerable adolescents, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to advocate for and practice self-care for their SRHR needs and to increase access to (digital) self-care services and commodities. The project is implemented by 8 partners across the countries and three regional partners.
Criminalisation of Young Key Populations is one of the most formidable barriers to SRH care, as it restricts access to and use of health and social services, leading to an increase in violence among and against Young Key Populations. This podcast was hosted to commemorate the 16 Days of Activism 2022. The discussion is about how the criminalisation laws and policies affect the SRHR of young key populations. It is an open platform and a safe space where the youth advocates will get to unpack the topic in depth.
The Youth wise project aims to amplify the voices of young people living with HIV in Kenya and Malawi to enable them to practice self-care and fulfill their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs. In order to promote visibility of the YouthWise project and amplify the agenda for self-care amongst young people Y+ Global is engaging in a series of podcasts.
You(th) care project aims to enable adolescents and youth aged 10-25 years, especially girls and other vulnerable adolescents, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to advocate for and practice self-care for their SRHR needs and to increase access to (digital) self-care services and commodities. The project is implemented by 8 partners across the countries and three regional partners.
You(th) care project aims to enable adolescents and youth aged 10-25 years, especially girls and other vulnerable adolescents, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to advocate for and practice self-care for their SRHR needs and to increase access to (digital) self-care services and commodities. The project is implemented by 8 partners across the countries and three regional partners.
You(th) care project aims to enable adolescents and youth aged 10-25 years, especially girls and other vulnerable adolescents, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to advocate for and practice self-care for their SRHR needs and to increase access to (digital) self-care services and commodities. The project is implemented by 8 partners across the countries and three regional partners.
Inorder to promote visibility of the YouthWise project and amplify the agenda for self-care amongst young people Y+ Global is engaging in a series of podcasts. The title of the first podcast in the series is: Young People and Self-care: Promoting HIV Treatment Adherence.
Suicide and mental health go hand in hand even though it is reported that people who commit suicide do not show any signs of depression of mental health as they have already let it all go.
Engaging young people in leadership spaces episode focuses on:
1. Sharing knowledge on engaging young people in leadership spaces
2. Sharing ideas on how Frontline AIDS is supporting young people in leadership spaces
Engaging young people in leadership spaces episode focuses on:
1. Sharing knowledge on engaging young people in leadership spaces
2. Sharing ideas on how Frontline AIDS is supporting young people in leadership spaces
The podcast will feature two country networks; Y+ Kenya and Eswatini Network of Young People living with HIV(SNYP). The two networks will highlight the milestones within their networks as supported by Ground Up.
This podcast episode will feature the Y+ Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning officer who has supported more than 100 youth networks across the Y+ Global program implementation portfolio. The episode will focus on unpacking monitoring and evaluation and why they are important concepts of program management.
This episode of YOUNG-VOICES will explore mental health and the role that self-care plays in attaining mental health.
Mental health conditions increase the risk of HIV infection, and people living with HIV have an increased risk of mental health conditions, which are associated with lower retention in HIV care, increased risk behaviors, and lower engagement with HIV prevention.
In this episode, young people discuss self-care and its role in improving the lives of all young people in our diversity.
Self-care interventions play a big role in improving the access to services and commodities. In the long run, improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for AYPLHIV and move us closer to attaining Universal Health Coverage.
We joined Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation with a mission in mind: ending the knowledge gaps that people living with HIV have regarding COVID-19. Listen to our most recent podcast and get to know the details of this project.
The ESA Commitment must be an important conversation topic for all young SRHR and HIV advocates of Africa. In this special episode after ICASA 2021, we talked about the last updates and news on the Ministerial Commitment that were announced during the conference
The launch of the new #HERVoiceFund strategy was one of the proudest things about ICASA 2021. In this special back home episode, Maximina Jokonya, the head of the HER Voice Fund, talks to us about how this new strategy is empowering adolescent girls and young women across Africa.
One of our most important events during #ICASA2021 was the announcement of the new Love Alliance Global Strategy. In this Back Home episode, Florencia Anam shares all the details about this impactful and inspiring project.
Just a few days after ICASA 2021, we want to make a special recount of what it was like to attend virtually through our #ICASACountryHubs. Listen to the main takeaways of one of our young advocates from Zimbabwe following the conference.
The AGYW advocate Fahe Kerubo joined us to speak about their participation as a young voice in the update of the "Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations" of the World Health Organisation.
Take a listen to our last Young Voices podcast, in which we speak with Reule, a young queer HIV advocate from Kenya, on their advocacy journey one year after being diagnosed with HIV.
Today on Teacher's Day, we are privileged to have recorded a podcast with an incredible teacher living with HIV and a young person living with HIV who supports other YPLHIV in Schools! Through this, they are doing their part in keeping the school environments safe for learners living with HIV.
Jóvenes líderes de 3 organizaciones colaboradoras de Y+ Global comparten sus experiencias en el trabajo conjunto en la acción contra el VIH y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en América Latina.
In this episode, we talk with two social entrepreneurs and HIV advocates about the journey of leading a social-oriented startup in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Listen to our podcast and discover their experience, challenges and learning during the last months.
This inaugural episode commemorates mental health month. The panellists speak about mental health issues among YPLHIV and create awareness of the neglected mental health issues.