United States Agency International Development is an activity funded through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program which empowers adolescent girls and young women with income-generating skills.
Adolescents and Children HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment and Virus Elimination (ACHIEVE) project that created this training program is part of the U.S. Government’s contributions to the people of South Sudan under PEPFAR, which marks its 20th anniversary this year.
While presenting certificates to eight graduates who completed their training with Radisson Blu Hotel on Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Adler revealed that the USAID project is focused on preventing HIV infections among women and children in South Sudan.
According to the U.S Embassy, ACHIEVE project that created this training program is part of the U.S. Government’s contributions to the people of South Sudan under PEPFAR which include providing comprehensive HIV prevention and case management services for orphans and vulnerable children, adolescent girls, and young women in Juba, and has provided training and services to more than 4,000 adolescent girls and young women so far, including skills training on tailoring, hairdressing, driving a vehicle, and other income-generating activities, including making sandals, fruit juice, and liquid soap.
“ACHIEVE also helped improve the clinical outcome for orphans and vulnerable children on antiretroviral therapy viral load suppression in Juba, from less than 50 percent when the activity started in April 2020, to about 84 percent at the end of September 2022”, the embassy stated.
By presenting graduation certificates to eight young women who completed their three-month internship at Radisson Blu Hotel in front desk management, catering, housekeeping, and engineering/plumbing, Ambassador Adler hopes for a happy future of peace and prosperous South Sudan this the private sector in important in a count
