Education Mali Project #17568

Teen Peer Education in Mali

by GAIA Vaccine Foundation

Project Report | May 6, 2019
Teens are Great Advocates!

By Annie De Groot MD | Scientific Director, GAIA Vaccine Foundation

Rokia, a member of the ASACOMSI, in Bamako

The Teen Peer Education Project has provided weekly health education sessions on reducing the risk of acquiring STDs, HIV, HPV to more than one thousand Malian teenagers, including out-of-school girls, since 2012.

The Teen Peer Education Program actively recruits the next generation of Malians, 14 to 18-year-old adolescents and young adults, in an engaging, co-ed, teen health education program that aims to address health issues faced by youth in Mali.

Rokia Sangare (pictured below) has a lot to say about teen peer education (see her video on our website: http://www/GAIAVaccine.org

Rokia is part of a team at the Hope Center Clinic who are working with young women to maintain school enrollment, increase literacy rates, provide reproductive health education including teen pregnancy prevention, and expand their access to health care. In 2018, with your support, we were able to engage 1,469 youth participants in weekly health education sessions on STDs, HIV, HPV and reproductive health.

Kids at the ASACOMSI

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