Resilient & Empowered Adolescents & Young People
The READY programme is funded by Frontline AIDS and is designed to build Resilient and Empowered Adolescents and Young people (READY). Its focus was on increasing access to holistic care and support: promoting not only sexual and reproductive health and rights but also mental health to foster resilience.
READY+2 (2021–2026) builds on the achievements and lessons learnt from READY+ (2016–2020). It aims to increase its focus on youth-centred action on gender norms transformation, advocacy, and movement building. The programme will directly reach 35,614 adolescents and young people living with or most affected by HIV and support them to become more resilient, empowered, and knowledgeable, with the bodily autonomy, freedom, and agency to realise their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
READY+2 is being implemented in Eswatini, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, with targeted interventions planned for Malawi, Zambia, and Angola.
PATA’s role in the programme is to provide technical assistance in selected health facilities and provide training for health providers in adolescent-friendly services, HIV-SRHR integration, and advocacy in action. This is complemented by on-site mentoring, quality improvement planning and monitoring, and the integration of PATA’s Clinic–Community Collaboration (C3) model.
Resources
Toolkit on Strengthening Youth-Friendly Spaces
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HIV and AIDS resources
READY+: OUR JOURNEYS, OUR STORIES
Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) have a pivotal – even revolutionary – role to play in supporting adolescents and young people living [...]
READY+ mid-term review: Key findings and learning
About READY+ READY + aims to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), mental health, care and treatment with, by and [...]
Delivering integrated HIV-SRHR services in partnership – the READY+ model
" Purpose Get young people ready to make informed decisions about their health and rights Get parents and caregivers ready to support [...]
Enabling disclosure. Young people’s experiences of sharing their HIV status
For young people living with HIV, talking to others about their HIV status is complicated. Unlike most other illness and health conditions, [...]
Supporting adherence. Young people’s experiences of HIV treatment
Whether they are born with HIV or contract the virus later, all young people living with HIV need to take medication to [...]
Youth-friendly services. The reality of sexual and reproductive health services for young people
Young people need access to quality SRHR services for many reasons. Access can help to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV and [...]
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