NIGERIA
CROWD OUT AIDS:
CrowdOutAIDS was established in December 2011 by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV&AIDS (UNAIDS) under the leadership of the Executive Director, Mr. Michel Sidibe. Its current members are the over 5000 young people who took part in the first CrowdOutAIDS launched online in October 2011. It is UNAIDS Secretariat’s new youth-led policy project which uses social media tools and crowdsourcing technology to enable young people from around the world develop a set of recommendations for the UNAIDS Secretariat to undertake in order to work more effectively in HIV&AIDS response and to collaborate with the new generation of young leaders in ensuring that the ambitious goals set by world leaders for AIDS response are reached.
Every year, to mark the World AIDS Day Vision 1 Health partners with the Lagos crowdoutAIDS team on a project to crowd source ideas to over 2000 young person’s encouraging networking among University students, Secondary students and Local communities in Lagos, hence promoting a culture of togetherness, and sources for ideas with focus on research matters of HIV&AIDS, creating awareness and addressing the prevention, treatment , and support needs of people living with and affected by HIV&AIDS, particularly those who are most vulnerable and ensuring that HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination is advocated
BRIDGING THE GAP, SAVING THE FUTURE:
This is an adolescent and youth focused project of Vision 1 Health that aims to fuel social action and inspire a new wave of activism in the HIV&AIDS response. It is about mobilizing young people to ensure that the fight against HIV remains a priority and that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are recognized all over. This project aims at using modern technology as a tool in creating the platform and awareness in SRHR.
Our role as a sexual and reproductive health educative organization is to provide the correct answers young people need. we have done this through previous events but we strongly feel the need to engage technology as a way of reaching our teeming audience as we live in a fast and growing world of technology and It is a known fact that almost every adolescent and youth (who are our direct audience) out there today in Nigeria either already has access to or is on the verge of having an internet-enabled electronic gadget. This project simply builds on the influence of technology to get more young people informed about HIV&AIDS including their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
PROJECT SMILE AFRICA:
This is a project where we provide need specific psycho social care and support to orphans and vulnerable children including the less privileged in terms of their health, physical and mental needs. It’s a project where we provide the necessary tools to improve the education needs of these children in communities where they have traditionally been suppressed.
Vision 1 Health 