Africaid-Zvandiri 2019 Africaid-Zvandiri 2019 Africaid is a community based organisation in Zimbabwe which, through its Zvandiri programme, provides community and health facility based prevention, treatment, care and support for children, adolescents and young people living with HIV. Zvandiri aims to support national HIV systems to provide a comprehensive package of care for children, adolescents and young people living with HIV which is responsive to their clinical and psychosocial needs and experiences. HIV positive children and adolescents are at the heart of the programme, whereby they take the lead in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating Zvandiri activities.

Young advocates from Zvandiri are engaged at community, national and international level in speaking out for the needs of HIV positive children, adolescents and young people. They have successfully advocated for policy change, guidance, funding and service delivery for their peers at all levels by sharing their own life experiences, as well as those of their peers across Zimbabwe.In addition to service provision, a key part of their work over the years has been to engage young people living with HIV in their own creative, participatory mixed media advocacy projects. 

In 2013, for the first time, a group of adolescents and young people living with HIV came out publicly to describe the way in which they have learned "how to dance in the storm", despite the challenges in their lives. As adolescents and young people living with HIV, they called for zero HIV- related deaths, zero new HIV infections and zero stigma. Uniquely, they were joined by a superband of Zimbabwean musicians who have helped them to turn their message into a world class track and performance. The song, “How to Dance” has been played at various regional and international conferences including the International AIDS Conference. As of December 2018, the song has been viewed by 16, 800 viewers on YouTube. Following on from its impact and success the adolescents and young people decided that there was still more to be said, more to be shared and that this could be done by building on the ‘How To Dance’ project format, creating a song with a new message and adding new exciting components to the project. These extra components will further help diversify how the message is disseminated as well engage them in new skills and reach a wider audience.

The programme will be conducted in four phases, some running consecutively or simultaneously as needed. The four phases are:
•	Song writing + Project Development Workshop
•	Song writing + Project Launch
•	Pre-Production and Recording 
•	Dissemination 

Following the completion of the programme and release of the song (July 2019) and accompanying videos, the project team will reconvene to evaluate the different project components. Taking stock of its successes and potential areas in need of improvement, it will be key to assess the impact on the contributing young people (eg. new skills learned) as well as look at the reach and scope of the project. Analysing social media reach and new contacts and support generated throughout the project will be helpful ways to examine the reach and potential future scope of the project. Therefore, an important element of the evaluation will be to discuss and decide which components could be developed as on-going activities and programmes under the Zvandiri umbrella. Africaid är en lokal gräsrotsorganisation i Zimbabwe som arbetar med barn och unga som lever med HIV. Genom Africaids program "Zvandiri"  erbjuder organisationen hälsovård och förebyggande insatser, samt stöd till familjer som har barn och/eller unga som lever med  HIV.  Unga HIV-positiva och deras familjer tar också stor del i att driva  Zvandiris aktiviteter, vilket stärker deras självkänsla och bidrar till deras kompetensutveckling. 

Som del av Zvandiri har unga människor varit med och skapat engagemang och kunskap kring hur det är att leva som ung HIV-positiv.  2013 skapade Africaid, genom Zvandiri,  en sång tillsammans med HIV-positiva barn och unga, där barnen tillsammans med flera välkända musiker i Zimbabwe berättade om sin situation genom musik och sång. Sången, "How to Dance", blev en hit i Zimbabwe och har också spelats på regionala och internationella konferenser inklusive på internationella AIDS-konferensen i december 2018. 

Som en uppföljning till sången och för att fortsätta att sprida buskapet om "positive living" vill Zvandiri och Africaid nu göra en ny sång, för att  sprida ett vidare budskap och nå nya målgrupper. The overall objective of the project were:• Increased dialogue among youths as well as the community at large about HIV as well asharmful norms, habits and attitudes• Increased information and awareness about HIV• A sense of pride among youth and the community about media produced by thecommunity for the commnuity