DREAMS Core – Eswatini
DREAMS Core aimed to significantly reduce HIV infections, reaching girls and young women ages 10 – 24 with life skills, health, and education platforms.
Funder
PEPFAR THROUGH PACT
Location
LUBOMBO REGION, ESWATINI
Dates
2015 - 2018
Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe
DREAMS Core is an ambitious partnership focused on reducing HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries and helping girls develop into Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. Our DREAMS Core program in Eswatini reached 6,648 girls and young women ages 10 – 24 with life skills, health, and education platforms. Activities were layered onto the Rapid & Effective Action Combatting HIV/AIDS (REACH) III/Umliba program.
Core DREAMS platforms included:
- In-school and out of school adolescent girls clubs run by Youth Volunteers trained on the Stepping Stones curriculum;
- Health clubs attached to local clinics for positive adolescent boys and girls following the Baylor curriculum;
- Referrals for testing, treatment, and support for positive adolescents;
- Tracking of positive adolescents on treatment and adherence to treatment, and;
- School block grants to support school fees for at-risk girls.
