News and Events
Fergana Valley Youth - for Healthy Lifestyle (USAID Newsletter 09/2008)
USAID’s CAPACITY project in cooperation with the Social Initiative Support Fund conducted a series of events to promote healthy life style and increase awareness on prevention of HIV/AIDS and drug use in the Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan. The events ran with a slogan “We are for a healthy lifestyle; we have no time for anything else” and focused on students of higher educational institutions, colleges, as well as other Uzbek youth.
More than 4,000 young people participated in contests, quizzes and interactive peer-to-peer education sessions, and have become more aware of the dangers of drug use and HIV/AIDS.
