Youth Awake for Better Society is a registered non-governmental, nonprofit organization with the determination to promote health care, create opportunities and lifesaving services, promote human and health rights, gender equality and education for vulnerable people.
Harm reduction is rooted in a commitment to addressing discrimination and ensuring that nobody is excluded from the health and social services they may need because of their drug use, their race, their gender, their gender identity, their sexual orientation, their choice of work
Help Promote Drug
Harm Reduction
Two key strategies for addressing harmful, high-risk substance use or substance-use disorder include reducing stigma and harm reduction. People will continue to experience harm from substance use if stigma prevents them from seeking help.
KEY ACTIVITIES
- Community mobilization and development
- Information, education and communication on HIV/AIDS, STI, TB and other infectious diseases
- Provision of human rights support for vulnerable people
- Research and development
- Advocacy, networking and collaboration with other stakeholders both locally and internationally
- Drug harm reduction
- Care and support
WORLD AIDS DAY 2022
Youth Awake for Better Society joined all health care providers in celebrating the World AIDS Day 2022 through HIV sensitisation, testing, counseling, commodity distribution for individuals in Imo State #yabsng
Overdose Awareness Day
Today, 31st August, marks International Overdose Awareness Day, an annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left