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Zambia Youth Platform (ZYP) with support from HIVOS under the Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Fund has implemented the Enhancing Youth Action project in Livingstone District of the Southern province. ZYP Livingstone Project coordinator Miranda Ziba says the one-year project was aimed at increasing access to Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services in...

Literature reveals that twenty years from the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), youth participation in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies and programs have flourished worldwide, operating at different levels from international advocacy to local interventions. Journal of Adolescents Health shows that the Programme of Action, adopted after the ICPD in 1994, gave...

Growing up in an environment where adolescents and young adults are dropping out of school, alcohol and drug abuse, teen marriages and the youth participating in gangs and violence has for long been seen as a norm, 27-year-old, Voster Hazala against all expectations has got a different point of view on what defines a youth...

In an effort to increasing comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS among adolescents and young adults, the Zambian Youth Platform (ZYP) held and implemented virtually the Youth Prevention Advocacy Campaign (Y-PAC). The advocacy campaign which took place from June-July 2021 also aimed at increase adolescent’s and young adult’s access to high-impact HIV services was implemented through various...

As the country’s current largest adolescent and youth network, ZYP has continued to create a diverse cadre of coordinated young people and youth leaders committed to the emancipation of young people in Zambia through unified and amplified voices in response to social-economic development challenges. This has not gone unnoticed as various key stakeholders have applauded...

National Aids Council (NAC) says the youthful population was responsible for about 40% of new HIV infections in 2019 and this means that young people should be at the center of the response to the HIV epidemic. Speaking during the Regional Adolescents Health Indaba organized by Zambian Youth Platform (ZYP), Director General Dr. Connie Osborne...

Zambian Youth platform (ZYP) held a youth indaba for the youth to meet the lawmakers to bring to their attention various issues affecting them especially relating to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The indaba also known as the RAHI was held from 16 to 17 December 2020 at Mika Convention Centre in Lusaka under...

Community Led Monitoring (CLM) is an accountability mechanism for HIV responses at different levels which are led and implemented by Local Communities, Youth Led Organizations and Civil Society Groups that focus on people living with HIV. Such mechanisms help organizations get feedback on the receipts and caregivers on the delivery of HIV services on Key...