This has been enabled by donor funding (Global Fund) and local initiatives such as the Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) model that has for the past five years increased access to HIV/Aids information, treatment and care among young Rwandans. The CATS model, implemented by Dream Village Rwanda and the Zvandiri program in Zimbabwe has been […]
Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and partners have recognized and recommended the need to scale up the Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) model that has for the past five years increased access to HIV/Aids information, treatment and care among young Rwandans. The CATS model, a youth led program, was adopted from the Zvandiri program in Zimbabwe […]
Dream Village Organization recently convened a celebratory event to acknowledge its remarkable strides in implementing the CATS model. This model offers a comprehensive array of specialized services designed specifically for children, adolescents, and young people living with HIV. The CATS model aims to address various critical aspects of HIV care and support, including promoting awareness, […]
It is a sunny and bright day as all Dream Village (DV) Rwanda beneficiaries are assembled at Kigali Parents School grounds to celebrate the 2022 Dream Village Day. Alice Umuganwa, one of the girl beneficiaries at Dream Village delivers to her friends a poem called “My life is in my hands. Do you really know […]
Besides COVID-19, HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the most disruptive threats to Rwanda’s socia-economic development. . Over 220,000 people are HIV positive out of a 12 million total population with a prevalence of 3% nationwide and the highest numbers being in Kigali with over 54,000 cases. The government, through support of the US government (Rwf1.6trillion […]
Rwanda has made a tremendous journey in giving access to healthcare to people living with HIV/AIDS, however HIV positive youth still complain that some services are not geared to them due to self-stigma and discrimination. Joyce, not her real name due to her personal security was born HIV positive and now is 20-year-old. Since then, […]
The society has brain washed us to believe that HIV/AIDS is a death sentence. Any person who is HIV positive is good for nothing again in life and he/she is already on the death queue. This was my perception about HIV. However, the human nature in me still gave me some level of respect to […]
Dream village in partnership with Braille without Borders Germany is running a social change project for social change makers in the HIV/ Aids Field. HIV / Aids needs a holistic approach where many partners have to come together and brain storm new strategies of reducing new infections, counseling, supporting, and giving hope to people both […]
