AIDS CARE AND TREATMENT PROJECT,
In 2017 Youth Partnership Uganda implemented a project titled AIDS care and treatment project targeting the Most at risk population (MARPS) especially the commercial sex workers in Mpondwe Lhubiriha Town Council in Bukonzo west kasese district using the moon light testing from bars and lodges and other hotsports , the project was being funded by Centre for Disease Control / Uganda Episcopal Conference/ Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau CDC/UEC/UCMB/, in partnership with Kasanga Primary Health Care; it was implemented from May to September 2017.
The project was successfully implemented and during the project implementation we trained 40 peer educators/counsellors, YPU staff managed to reach and tested 2836 people yet the targeted population as per the MOU were 2636,we managed to link 76 positive Commercial Sex Workers for ART at Kasanga Primary health Centre and through this project the target population and the wider community have greatly been sensitized on HIV/AIDS and STIs prevention hence minimizing re-infection using the 90,90,90 approach.
In photo: One of our staff during the HIV community outreach programme in Mpondwe Lhubiriha Town Council.
Youth Partnership Uganda services are not limited to moonlight services, however. YPU now has HIV/AIDS outreaches in various areas where they operate, offering free and accessible services to community members. Since we began outreaches in May, they have continued testing people in communities, individuals and provide counseling services those positive are referred to the health facility nearby.
Advocacy for better health project
In 2015 Youth partnership Uganda was selected by Action for Community Development (ACODEV) to participate in the implementation of Advocacy for better health project. The partnership involves raising the capacity of the community members to effectively demand and advocate for better health services from their leaders. The ABH project is funded by USAID through Pathfinder to ACODEV, and implemented in Kasese district where Youth Partnership Uganda was allocated participation in Nyakiyumbu Sub County and we managed to reach 35600 both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
in photo: ACODEV partners in training about advocacy for Better Health a project being funded by USAID and Youth Partnership Uganda is one of the implementing partners
Global Meetings for Girls Not Brides Members
Girls Not Brides organizes global meetings for its members that aimed at building the member’s capacity to effectively implement issues concerning early marriages and teenage pregnancy in their respective countries. This enabled YPU to share its experiences and meet potential donors. The meeting was organized from 19th-21st of May 2015 in Morocco-Casablanca. It was attended by Mr. Kambere Julius-the Programme Coordinator of Youth Partnership Uganda and also the Executive Director Mr Bwambale Morish attended another one in Malaysia in 2018
in photo: The Programs Coordinator Youth Partnership Uganda and other members of Girls Not Brides in a global conference held in Morocco in May 2015
Community Action
Youth Partnership Uganda supports, child clubs in schools and in the community at large to advocate for their rights especially education and health, increase to sexual reproductive health rights information. We support girls and boys to be activists of change in their schools, communities and government through information sharing and public debates both in schools and the community at large where we have even reached girls in schools and teach them about menstrual health management and how best they can overcome pains we even give out re usable sanitary pads to vulnerable girls and young women both in schools and the community, we have so far supplied 650 pads and our target is 20000 girls of school going age
in photo: Students of ST Peters Anglican Vocational Secondary school receive the pads donated by Kelly Goodman and friends
in photo: After training the girls on menstrual health management how to use the re usable sanitary pads
in photo: Pupils of Busendwa Primary school one of the hard in Bundibugyo receives re-usable sanitary pads.
in photo: Pupils of Kabusongora Primary school very happy as they receive Re usable sanitary pads donated by Kelly Goodman and friend so as to fight school dropout due to menstrual challenges
in photo: After training the girls on menstrual health management how to use the re usable sanitary pads