targeted aids interventions

Social Research Project: the young people participating in the Shosholoza and Inkunzi Projects reported challenges relating to the adults within their communities. For example, health services were not youth-friendly (when accessing free condoms, nurses would harass them) or the adults in their families reacted negatively when they (as “children”) tried to talk to “adults” about sex, condom use and HIV. This was seen as taboo. With the intention of creating an enabling environment for the groups of young peer educators, TAI decided to create a project involving adults within the community to work with the youth groups. The Sibambiqhaza Project was started in the Matimatolo community (deep rural) and saw the meaningful involvement of a broad section of the community through mainstreaming HIV and AIDS activities into the core-functions of their community groups.