356:, and relationships – including personal stories from the site's users. It offered reassurance to people newly diagnosed with HIV and dispelled dangerous myths about HIV and AIDS. The professional section of the site provided a thoroughly researched and referenced resource on the global epidemic, alongside an up-to-date news service to inform people working in HIV programming, policy or research, health workers, teachers and students.
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It works in partnership with organisations in countries most affected by HIV to develop and promote digital HIV and sexual health content and resources that are accurate, accessible, useful, and actionable. It focuses on digital communications to reach people online in spaces they are already
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Building on Avert’s existing Boost platform, Youth Boost aims to increase the number of young people (aged 10-24) accessing HIV, sexual health, family planning, Female
Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) and mental health services in four provinces in Zimbabwe.
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Boost is a digital, mobile-first set of communication tools that aim to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence of community health workers in
Southern Africa, so they can provide high quality care and support to their communities.
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Eagle engages out-of-school, low literacy girls in
Mozambique through a digital life skills and sexual health app called Yaya (Sister). It is part of VSO’s Eagle project in Mozambique – Empowering Adolescent Girls to Learn and Earn.
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Be in the KNOW is a digital brand that offers fresh, sex-positive content primarily for individuals in East and
Southern Africa, and for the community health workers and primary practitioners that support them.
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In line with the changing needs of the HIV epidemic, the Avert.org website was decommissioned in March 2022 with the learning and evidence it generated used to develop a new youth-focused sexual health brand,
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provided clear and trusted information about HIV and AIDS. The site changed many times as technology developed. In 2015, the Avert.org website had a major redesign, with a focus on mobile users.
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Young Voices Africa is an interactive package of animations and information materials on sex and relationships – created by, and for, young people between 15 and 24 years old in
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Be in the Know Zambia is a story-driven mobile app co-created with young people in Zambia, to increase condom-related knowledge, communication about sexual health, and support healthier choices.
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The Avert.org website was launched in 1995 in order to provide education about prevention of HIV and support for individuals living with HIV and AIDS. In 2022 the website was replaced by
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and was widely used in other developing countries. Rural doctors, scientists, AIDS activists and organisations rallied in support of Pfaff, and the charges were subsequently dropped.
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