Protect Nigerian Teens from HIV with Lenacapavir

by Empower Future Initiative
Protect Nigerian Teens from HIV with Lenacapavir
Protect Nigerian Teens from HIV with Lenacapavir
Protect Nigerian Teens from HIV with Lenacapavir
Protect Nigerian Teens from HIV with Lenacapavir

Project Report | Mar 23, 2026
Thank You to Our First Supporters.

By Ikechukwu Kelechukwu | Project Lead

Thank You to Our First Supporters — Help Us Reach More Teens

We are incredibly grateful to share that our first two donors have stepped forward to support this life-saving project. Your belief in our mission means everything. Because of you, hope is no longer just an idea, it is becoming a reality for at-risk adolescents in Nigeria.

At Empower Future Initiative (EFI), we are preparing to deliver long-acting HIV prevention using Lenacapavir, a breakthrough solution that can protect young people for up to six months with a single injection. This innovation has the potential to transform prevention, especially for adolescents who struggle with daily adherence to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP).

But the need is urgent, and far greater than what two donors alone can meet.

Thousands of vulnerable teens are still at risk. Every delay in access to prevention increases the chance of new HIV infections that could have been prevented.

Your early support has helped us to activate. Now, we are calling on individual donors, corporate partners, and CSR leaders to join this movement.

  • Individuals can help protect one adolescent at a time

  • Corporate donors can scale this intervention across entire communities

  • Partners can help us build a sustainable, nationwide prevention model

With increased funding, we will move from preparation to action—reaching more adolescents, expanding community outreach, and delivering life-saving protection where it is needed most.

This is a moment to act.
This is a chance to prevent, not treat, HIV.

To our first donors: thank you for leading the way.
To future supporters: we invite you to stand with us and help protect a generation.

Together, we can stop new infections before they start.

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Empower Future Initiative

Location: Karu, Nassarawa - Nigeria
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Ikechukwu Kelechukwu
Karu , Nassarawa Nigeria
$17 raised of $325,000 goal
 
2 donations
$324,983 to go
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