BLOOM project
The aim of the project is a healthy life for children and their mothers (10-24) living with or exposed to HIV.
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Adolescent girls and young women, Children
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Aidsfonds is delighted to announce that Happy Betty has joined its Paediatric HIV Advisory Panel, bringing with her a wealth of expertise and passion for advancing HIV care and support for children. We spoke with her about her personal motivation, the role of the advisory panel and the importance of community leadership in the HIV response.
What is your personal motivation to become member of the Advisory Panel?
“Joining the panel gives me an opportunity to bring my expertise from the implementation level to the policy level, to the panel, bringing my expertise to the panel so that the right decisions are made, culminating into the right care.”
What is the role of the advisory panel?
“The role of the advisory panel is to provide funding advice to Aidsfonds, but also give input to paediatric HIV strategies that would be implemented by the partners of Aidsfonds. And also conduct an evaluation of the panel’s work regarding the recommendations that have been made, ensuring that every one of them is driven towards closing the gaps in the paediatric HIV space.”
Why is it so important that communities are in the lead in the HIV response?
“Who can solve the community’s problems better than the community. Solutions are within. So it’s critical to capacitate the communities and support them to come up with solutions of their own problems.”
