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Millennium Youth Project - A school based intervention against HIV/AIDS
Millennium Youth Project
September 01, 2011

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The Millennium Youth project in collaboration with Zypo Zone and Youth Press bureau initiated a program in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe that will be working with the youth in Matabeleland. It came to be after the realization that not enough is being done to educate the youth about HIV/AIDS issues and HIV prevention thus the need for the mobilization of the youth against HIV/AIDS. The project deploys trained peer educators in schools to work with anti-AIDS clubs in the front-line of a schools based campaign to mobilize young people against HIV/AIDS.

It is the project's mandate to make sure these young people are adequately informed, counseled and empowered with knowledge about HIV/AIDS in a non academic, non-formal student centered and participatory education system It's main objective is to improve the reproductive health knowledge base of the 12-19 year olds and also decrease the incidences of STIs and teenage pregnancy through peer education by trained peer educators. It has currently been working with youth groups like Echoes of Young Voices The issue of teenage pregnancy and HIV infection within this age group has remained a tad bit high because AIDS education is not really being implemented within the school set-up and young people are still dying of ignorance.

History Of Millennium Youth Project (MYP)

Millennium Youth Project was born and bred in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. A region that has come up close and personal with the effects of HIV/AIDS and remains with the highest HIV Prevalence rates according to the latest statistics from the National AIDS Council. It's not about underdevelopment only that the region has the highest HIV prevalence rates but to a larger extent ignorance. People die because they are ignorant of the truth.

Millennium Youth Project realizes the need for AIDS education to be taken seriously in schools because there are reports of rape and underage sexual relationships. Most of these are reported in local media and it is evident that there are more cases that remain unreported out of fear of victimization or stigmatization. MYP was developed to be an in-school intervention to extend the HIV/AIDS knowledge base, psycho-social support for school going youths and reduce the effects of this scourge of HIV in our society.

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