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FHI Programs Help Develop Local LeadershipJANUARY 2009 — Family Health International is keeping its promise to help stop AIDS. We do this by building local leadership worldwide to support individuals, communities, and countries who want to take charge of their own response to the problem. The stories below are just a few examples of the local leadership that has emerged from FHI's programs in China, India, Kenya, and Tanzania. |
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Promoting Youth Leadership within Peer Education
Supporting Locally Based, Family-centered Care
Developing Youth Leadership through Sports
Addressing Stigma through Television
Empowering Local Healthcare Leaders
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JANUARY 2009 — In Kenya's Coast and Rift Valley provinces, 32 Girl Guides are proud of how much they contributed to a new peer education manual, Discovering the Potential of Girl Guide Patrol Leaders: A Curriculum of Peer Education Sessions for Use with Pupils in Primary Schools. The manual is now an important tool for a peer education program implemented by the Kenya Girl Guides Association (KGGA), under the aegis of the USAID-funded and FHI-led AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance Program (APHIA II). 
JANUARY 2009 — The Balasahyoga program in Andhra Pradesh supports 40,000 HIV-affected households with comprehensive services to children and their families across five care domains: health, psychosocial support, education, nutrition, and food security. 
JANUARY 2009 — FHI is teaming up with Grassroot Soccer (GRS), a nonprofit organization that uses the popularity of soccer to help prevent HIV. FHI will help build the capacity of three Tanzanian organizations to adapt and implement the GRS curriculum, which uses soccer-based activities to teach young people life and coping skills, resiliency, and good health practices. 
JANUARY 2009 — Television programs airing in China in December provided insight into the health and social challenges faced by men who have sex with other men. These programs helped reduce stigma and discrimination by challenging viewers' assumptions and inspiring positive change. 
JANUARY 2009 — Wei Luo, director of the STI Clinic at the Kunming Center for Disease Prevention and Control in China, was uncomfortable around men who have sex with other men. But with training and support from FHI, he is using new skills to provide quality health services to this community. 