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Programme update
Follow-up visits to 12 support groups
The MASYAP team visited 12 support groups to make sure each one keeps thriving and members get the support they need.
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Microfinance visits to seven groups: growing businesses
May visits found members expanding their businesses and supporting their families, and identified where more help is needed.
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13 support groups in Blantyre and Zomba visited in May
Our team followed up on group activities and offered free, confidential HIV testing, counselling and referral to care.
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April outreach: checking on progress and offering HIV testing
MASYAP visited support groups in April to hear about their progress and needs, and offered HIV testing and counselling.
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Microfinance training for vulnerable women and young mothers
Business and loan management training helped participants make better financial decisions, and several have started or grown businesses since.
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Testing for HIV and hepatitis B in women’s and girls’ groups
MASYAP has added HIV testing, and discussion of hepatitis B and other serious illnesses, to its support group meetings.
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How MASYAP supports vulnerable women
Our women’s groups include widows, divorced women, women living with HIV and elderly women. We combine microfinance, food relief, health education an…
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Why follow-up visits to youth groups matter
MASYAP’s regular visits to youth groups of girls living with or affected by HIV bring emotional support, peer education and help with treatment.
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Youth groups: friendships that last a lifetime
Support group visits help young members build lasting, trusting friendships where everyone feels safe and supported.
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HIV and STI testing at the youth camp
At the December youth camp, 20 young people were tested for HIV and screened for syphilis and hepatitis B, with education on condoms, PrEP and PEP.
Programme updateYouth group sessions on hygiene and staying safe from HIV
An HIV testing provider talked with schoolgirls and young mothers about personal hygiene and the behaviours that can lead to HIV.
Programme updateHIV prevention and protecting babies from HIV
On visits to women’s and youth groups, our HIV testing provider explained how HIV is transmitted, the ABC of prevention and how mothers can protect t…