Breaking stigma is essential to expanding access to health care — and that’s exactly what our Futuremaker, Taonga Banda, is doing in Lusaka, Zambia.
With support from the Global Fund, Taonga founded Pink Girls, a community-led program that empowers and educates adolescent girls and young women living with HIV/AIDS. In Zambia, adolescent girls and young women represent a disproportionate share of new HIV infections, making stigma reduction, education, and youth-centered health services critical to ending the epidemic.
Born HIV-positive herself, Taonga brings lived experience to her leadership. She understands firsthand how access to information, peer support, and confidence can transform health outcomes and enable young women to become leaders in their communities.
Watch Taonga’s story to learn how she is breaking stigma, expanding HIV care, and shaping the future of girls’ health across Zambia.
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