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April 14, 2025Empowering Peer Leaders for the ZAIMARA Intervention: A Collaborative Training Initiative.
CIDRZ, in partnership with the UAB – The University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB) and University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), recently trained peer leaders to deliver the ZAIMARA (Zambia Informed, Motivated, Aware, Responsible Adolescent Girls and Young Women) and Health Promotion curriculums.
The ZAIMARA curriculum aims to strengthen communication between adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and their mothers/mother figures (MF) to have healthy discussions on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). The Health Promotion curriculum focuses on discussions on #nutrition, sexual violence awareness, mental health and substance use.
The Gavi delegation, led by Senior Country Manager Jamilya Sherova, joined the national Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) team, led by Dr Jacob Sakala, as they listened to a briefing from the Ngombe Urban Health Centre Medical Superintendent during a visit to observe immunisation service delivery.