Four weeks before the African Cup of Nations football tournament kicked off it was down to the wi. Four weeks before the African Cup of Nations football tournament kicked off it was down to the wire. The 20, tournament volunteers recruited by the Ministry of Youth not only played the online game themselves but they fanned out around the stadiums promoting the game by sharing the QR code with the hundreds of thousands of supporters.
And with various prize giveaways during the tournament and afterwards, more and more people downloaded the app to play. Since mid-January , AADS has reached nearly , adolescents and young people with the latest version reaching a lot of young boys and men cumulatively, the three versions have reached almost people.
He and his staff were particularly happy because they also succeeded in expanding the scope of the content. The full game of questions is like a quiz with additional information popping up. Players score points by advancing through 40 sets of ten questions. At least seven correct answers are needed to advance to the next level.
It can take up to an hour to get to the last round and when the updated pilot was tested in October and November of , young people responded well. His dynamism and activist spirit enabled him to speak out on behalf of the most marginalized and neglected people in the AIDS response. His participation in several international conferences contributed to the advocacy of the rights of people living with HIV and more broadly the rights of key populations.
His passing is a great loss to all those involved in the AIDS response, especially those committed to defending the most vulnerable. As soon as the first cases of COVID were confirmed in March , a national response plan was developed by the government. Unfortunately, the restrictive measures to protect the population had an impact on the use of health services, including those related to HIV, threatening the fragile retention in care of people living with HIV.
