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NOVEMBER 2006 — USAID has awarded FHI/Tanzania a five-year, $25 million project to protect youth from AIDS. Called UJANA (Swahili for "Youthfulness"), the project will work with influential adults and community members to help youth develop skills to abstain from or delay sex, remain faithful to one partner if engaged in a relationship, reduce their number of sexual partners, or if appropriate, use condoms. UJANA particularly focuses on gender relations. This is important since girls and women are especially vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, says USAID/Tanzania director Pamela White.
"This award allows FHI to build on the strong foundation it has established with its previous youth intervention and research experience in developing countries," says FHI's Dr. Tonya Nyagiro, director of FHI's youth services. "The results and lessons learned from YouthNet (FHI's USAID-funded global youth-focused project) will be adapted to these new programs in Tanzania and Botswana." In particular, YouthNet has conducted research on peer education programs; developed guidelines on how to involve communities; developed Christian and Muslim faith-based curricula for adolescents; created a youth-adult partnership manual; and employed the media to reach youth. All of these tools will be applied by local implementing partners to the UJANA project. |
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