Youth Challenge Guyana

Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) offers young people from Guyana and abroad opportunities to utilize leadership and conflict resolution skills to contribute to community-driven development projects. The program implements projects that build and strengthen the capacity of communities and improve the livelihood of individuals across Guyana.

Grants Received

GM-0059: Improving Capacity to Deliver Effective HIV Services for Key Affected Populations in Guyana

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    Award Period:
    February 01, 2014 to September 30, 2015

RFA No. GH-011

 Country: Guyana  |  Associated APC Country Office: Guyana

Community Health Matters Focus Area:
Capacity Building, HIV and AIDS

YCG, in partnership with the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), provides HIV prevention services to key populations in Region 1 of Guyana with funding provided through grants awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC). The project offers a range of prevention services including peer outreach and education, support group meetings, life skills sessions, risk reduction counseling and psychosocial support, counseling and testing for HIV, and stigma and discrimination training. In addition, YCG distributes condoms, lubricants, and behavior change communication materials. The program targets sex workers, miners, and adjacent community members in Region 1.

Keywords: Guyana, capacity building, HIV/AIDS, key populations, testing and counseling, training

GM-0025

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    Award Period:
    September 01, 2013 to January 31, 2014

 Country: Guyana  |  Associated APC Country Office: Guyana

Community Health Matters Focus Area:
Capacity Building, HIV and AIDS

YCG addresses the HIV prevention needs of Most-at-Risk Populations (MARPs) and addresses stigma and discrimination through strengthening the network of sex workers to support prevention and skill building of their colleagues and other MARPs in the community; engaging sex workers in community mobilization and outreach; creating networks to reduce the number of women and girls who engage in sex work; and provide HIV testing services to sex workers, miners, and adjacent community members in Region 8, coordinated with prevention services.

Keywords: Guyana,