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Listen with chapters
District chapters surface the realities young people are facing in clinics, schools, homes, and community spaces.
Our Strategies
Stronger, louder, unstoppable.
YPLUS Malawi works through youth-led chapters, peer networks, schools, communities, and partners so young people living with HIV can access quality health care, social services, voice, and opportunity.
How strategy becomes action
Built from lived experience, then carried back into systems.
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Shape practical responses
Peer leaders, partners, and staff turn those realities into programs, campaigns, training, and referral pathways.
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Move evidence upward
Stories, data, and youth priorities feed into local and national decision-making spaces.
Strategy pillars
Seven ways YPLUS Malawi keeps youth leadership practical.
Advocacy
Equip resilient adolescents and young people to claim their rights and influence policy at local and national levels.
Capacity building
Develop leadership, advocacy, resource mobilization, and partnership skills so YPLHIV can lead and improve HIV service delivery.
Sports and arts for change
Use sport and art to mobilize communities, deliver HIV and SRHR services, and strengthen local partnerships.
Peer-to-peer learning
Train young people living with HIV to share skills, knowledge, and information through methods that work across projects.
Skills development and economic empowerment
Provide starter knowledge and practical skills that can become income, reduce vulnerability, and improve long-term security.
Partnerships, collaborations, and networks
Work with donor organizations, civil society, and networks to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.
Media and communications
Build youth capacity to use traditional and digital media for advocacy and change in an increasingly digital world.
Program areas
The work stays connected because health, rights, skills, and climate realities overlap.
HIV and TB prevention
treatment
and care
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender
Research
communication
and advocacy
Life skills development and economic empowerment
Climate change and food security
Organizational capacity development
Current projects
Active work with partners, chapters, and youth champions.
YouthWise
Aidsfonds
Chikwawa and Mangochi
Improves treatment outcomes and quality of life for adolescents and young people aged 10-24 while amplifying youth voices in self-care and SRHR.
READY+
Y+ Global
Policy and structural advocacy
Builds resilient and empowered adolescents and young people living with HIV to secure accountability for health care and wellbeing.
Her Voice Fund
Y+ Global
AGYW champions nationwide
Coordinates and strengthens sub-grantees and champions so adolescent girls and young women can demand their health rights.
Safe Choices, Bright Futures Initiative
Youth support groups
Ntcheu and Balaka
Creates supportive environments that reduce unintended pregnancies and school dropouts among young people living with HIV.
Ready to build with YPLUS Malawi?
Partner with the movement, invite peer leaders into your work, or connect a young person to support.