Youth & Adolescents
Equipping young people with life skills, sexual and reproductive health knowledge and peer leadership to navigate adolescence and HIV with confidence.
- Life Skills
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV Education
- Mental Health
- Peer Education
Adolescents living with or affected by HIV face a unique set of transitions - physical, emotional and social - often without accurate information or safe spaces to ask questions. SHIP's Youth & Adolescents programme meets young people where they are, with life-skills education, sexual and reproductive health information and mental health support delivered by trained peer educators.
By building a cadre of youth peer educators from within the community, SHIP ensures that young people hear accurate HIV information from voices they trust, and that adolescents living with HIV have role models who understand their journey.
Key Activities
- Life skills education sessions for adolescents and youth
- Sexual and reproductive health education and counselling
- HIV education tailored for young people
- Mental health awareness and psychosocial support
- Peer educator training and mentorship
Other programme areas
HIV Prevention
Community-driven awareness and behaviour-change work that reduces new HIV infections and builds accurate, stigma-free understanding of HIV.
Care & Treatment
Linking people living with HIV to ART centres and health services, and supporting them through counselling, home-based care and consistent treatment adherence.
Children Living with HIV
A holistic child development approach - education, nutrition, protection and psychosocial care - for children living with and affected by HIV.
