AYA Programme Benefits Batswana Youth

The African Youth Alliance (AYA) programme has been beneficial to Batswana youth, stakeholders at the end of programme dissemination meeting learnt last week. The US$57 million (P354.5 million) five-year programme was aimed at improving HIV/AIDS prevention and sexual and reproductive health among young people in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda.

Officially launched in 2000, the programme was targeted at young people between the ages of 10 to 24 years. Botswana's share was US $7.6 million.

Deputy Programme Manager, Oguchi Daniels, said there have been positive changes in Botswana's laws and policies, thus enabling 36 religious denominations to implement Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) policy guidelines.

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