Our Projects:
Theatre Against AIDS
Our Main Initiative
T!AN uses theatre for HIV prevention. We have tested over 8,200 villagers and educated over 99,800 people on HIV across Malawi. |
Rebuild Primary Schools
We re-build classrooms to keep kids in school longer.
Because, statistically, the longer a child is in school the less likely they are to contract HIV. |
The Need
Malawi consistently ranks as one of the top three hardest hit countries in the world for HIV with over 9% HIV prevalence rates. It is also one of the poorest and densely populated nations with over 19 million people living in 36,598 square miles of land. The average life expectancy at birth is 61 years and 57% of the population is under 20 years old. With all this in mind over 90% over the population lives in rural areas of Malawi and therefore don’t have access to mass media and widespread knowledge of HIV and AIDS. Thus engaging, informative theatre is the best method to provide HIV education, while breaking down the stigma within the village.
Since Together! ACT Now has started, HIV prevalence rates have dropped from a high of 12% and AIDS related deaths have also decreased. This is country wide effort that Together! ACT Now is honored to be a part of.
Malawi consistently ranks as one of the top three hardest hit countries in the world for HIV with over 9% HIV prevalence rates. It is also one of the poorest and densely populated nations with over 19 million people living in 36,598 square miles of land. The average life expectancy at birth is 61 years and 57% of the population is under 20 years old. With all this in mind over 90% over the population lives in rural areas of Malawi and therefore don’t have access to mass media and widespread knowledge of HIV and AIDS. Thus engaging, informative theatre is the best method to provide HIV education, while breaking down the stigma within the village.
Since Together! ACT Now has started, HIV prevalence rates have dropped from a high of 12% and AIDS related deaths have also decreased. This is country wide effort that Together! ACT Now is honored to be a part of.
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Please read our decennial report to learn about everything we've done and what we will be doing next:
The Together! ACT Now DifferenceTogether! ACT Now acts as a conduit within the village. Providing a vehicle for society to take initiative and work together to help their own community. There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’, because each Together! ACT Now project is community run and sustained, with on-going international support that works inline with the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals.
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T!AN has aligned its objectives to support the United Nations goals:
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"We Are The World" by Michael Jackson Malawi Cover by T!AN |
Where is Malawi?Don't worry, we get asked that a lot. It's a tiny country in sub-Saharan Africa known as the "Warm Heart of Africa".
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Do we like singing? Yes we do!we have some really exciting news coming out about some T!AN songs about HIV we have recorded and are getting mastered.
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