Thanks to funding from The Mercury Phoenix Trust, our Young Voices materials are now available in Swahili!
As part of a project with Frontline AIDS and REPSSI, we have translated six of our Young Voices animations and the associated support materials (fact sheets, comics and facilitator guides) so they can be used by Frontline AIDS, REPSSI and their partners in Tanzania.
At the end of last year we launched two new Young Voices videos, about consent and using condoms in a relationship. So far the videos have reached over 680,000 young people in Southern Africa on Facebook and Instagram, and have been watched over 75,000 times (viewing 50% or more).
We’re really pleased to now be a certified member of the Patient Information Forum's PIF TICK scheme. The PIF TICK shows an organisation has a professional and robust production process in place to provide high-quality health information.
It has now been over a year since we launched our learning app for community health workers, Boost. We’ve had some great feedback along the way, including these comments from Tendai and Loveness.
Did you know that later this year we will be launching a new chatbot to go alongside the Boost app? The BoostBot will be here to answer community health workers' questions about HIV, sexual health and COVID-19 via WhatsApp.
“Avert.org is just so awesome educative and full of knowledge.”
In 2020 we provided HIV, sexual health and COVID-19 information to over 15 million people through our website, Avert.org. Thank you for your support!
We hope you have all had a happy and healthy start to the new year and were able to enjoy the festive season. We know last year was a very different and difficult time. But we were pleased to have been able to continue our work providing accurate and trusted information about HIV, sexual health and COVID-19.
Here’s to continuing our efforts in 2021!
We’re starting to feel festive here at Avert – even if it is virtually this year! We know 2020 has been a difficult year but we hope you all have a lovely festive season and a happy and healthy start to the new year.
Our HIV basics video series is being translated into Arabic by the Tunisian Centre for Public Health and ATL MST SIDA Tunis. We’re really pleased to see our content available in another language so that more people can learn the facts about HIV!
You can see the first translated video here.
For this year's World AIDS Day we asked young people for their tips and advice on the best ways to have a happy and healthy sex life. From talking to your partner about what turns you on to getting advice about contraceptives and testing for HIV and STIs - check out our favourite tips here.
We've just launched two new Young Voices videos! Designed to get young people thinking and talking about consent and using condoms in relationships. Check them out on the links below.
Sexual consent: www.avert.org/young-voices-africa/do-you-always-have-say-yes-sex-your-partner
Condoms and relationships: www.avert.org/young-voices-africa/when-your-boyfriend-wants-stop-using-condoms
We're always pleased to hear that our users are learning a lot from the information and resources on Avert.org!
We are currently redesigning our website and digital offer, and want to hear from you how what we do can be more useful. Take our survey and help shape our new online offer!
We've been updating our country graphics with the latest UNAIDS data. So if you're looking for up-to date visuals of the HIV epidemic around the world, head over to our infographics hub.
Some great feedback about one of our Talking HIV videos. Have you seen any of them yet? Our Talking HIV series is a collection of real-life conversations between people who have been affected by HIV.
"Amazing stories! I can relate to this so much. I'm very much enjoying watching it and learning about their experience."
We’ve been working together with Louisa Manby from UCL, to investigate the potential of digital health interventions for HIV prevention for female sex workers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We'll be sharing some of the findings soon, so watch this space!
Always great to hear that the information on Avert.org is helping you support and educate your communities.
“Great information I’m going to share the information I learned to educate the local community” – Avert.org user
Our Young Voices videos are still receiving a high level of engagement across our social media. So far on Facebook and Instagram Young Voices has:
Find out more about the Young Voices project here.
