![]() In 2017, DREAMS expanded to five new countries: Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Rwanda, and Namibia. These countries accounted for nearly half of all the new HIV infections that occurred among AGYW globally. ![]() DREAMS was announced on World AIDS Day 2014, and in 2015 USAID began activities in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe) partnership is an ambitious public-private partnership aimed at reducing rates of HIV among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in the highest HIV burden countries. To help keep adolescent girls in school, the APHIAplus project in Western Kenya, with funding from PEPFAR’s DREAMS partnership, provides a package of interventions to support adolescent girls and young women, like Doreen. ![]() Limited reproductive health care options contribute to high pregnancy rates for adolescent girls which often forces them to drop out of school.
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