Test Your Team
The Test Your Team campaign consists of a series of one day football tournaments where HIV education and HIV testing is provided on-site. Teams earn tournament points for completing HIV educational sessions, getting HIV tested, and for winning matches.
The campaign targets all youth (10-18 years) and teams are made up of an equal number of boys and girls.
Football is used to educate and motivate indivuduals for testing in an informal and entertaining environment and attreacts at-risk individuals to the events
Key Objectives
- Use football to educate youth about HIV/AIDS education
- Encourage young people to know their HIV status by creating an atmosphere of positive peer pressure, removing stigma fear and ignorance around testing
- Provide free and confidential HIV testing and counselling.
- Identify children who are HIV positive linking them with immediate medical follow up
- Spread awareness of HIV and the availability of free testing and treatment.
- Encourage families to bring their small children in for screening and testing.
