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Key areas of work of Youth Alive 

Youth Alive contribute to the HIV/AIDS prevention by conducting behaviour change programs that include Advocacy programs with school administrators and parents and Life skills development programmes, capacity building, guidance and counselling targeting children, youth and low – income women in schools and communities respectively. 

Based on Gerard Egan “The skilled helper” (See Egan G. The skilled Helper Brooks /Cole Publishing company, Monterey, California, 1986), the behaviour change orientation workshops are designed for groups, which are living in areas of high prevalence of and / or at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Programme participants scrutinise factors that lead individuals to engage in risky health behaviour. The workshop modules are grounded on the belief that people can change and, to change one’s behaviour, is a process. Life skills programmes seek to empower beneficiaries for the challenges and opportunities posed by the adolescence period.
Programme beneficiaries develop positive behaviour modes and lifestyles, which enables them to cope and respond positively to the challenges of life, including HIV/AIDS and socio – economic development issues.

The implementation of the Youth Alive activities follows the strategy outlined below;