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Absolute Health Home Foundation (AHHF)

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The Absolute Health Home Foundation (AHHF) is a non-governmental student’s movement and voluntary youth organisation for the less privileged living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. AHHF designs media messages for campaign against crime and corruption among young people. It also issues press releases on matters relating to youth development in Nigeria.
Communication Strategies
AHHF hopes to educate, motivate and mobilise the general public in Nigeria to work against the spread HIV/AIDS and to provide guidance to the less privileged youth. It aims to eradicate poverty, terrorism and HIV/AIDS among the less privileged Nigerian youth and promote campaign for their well-being.

AHHF organises seminars, mentorship and trainingship programme, counselling, advocacy, campaigns, research and documentation to execute its programmes and achieve its objectives.

AHHF aims and objectives include to:
  • educate the youth about premarital, premature and unprotected sexual activity and publicise the reality of HIV/AIDS.
  • provide spiritual, emotional and physical care to the people infected and affected by the HIV/AIDS.
  • check, correct and counsel youth regarding terrorism.
  • check, correct and counsel the youth from activities that could damage their future e.g. prostitution human trafficking, cultism, drug addiction etc.
  • create and organise research to identify the fundamental problems affecting the Nigerian youth with a view to provide a lasting solution.
  • promote the awareness of youth rights as enshrined both in the International Human Right instrument and Nigerian Constitution and provide a platform through which they can be heard.
  • educate and influence the active involvement of the Nigerian youth in the process of sustainable growth and development.
  • create and support research centres and programmes for the study, teaching, monitoring and empowerment of Nigerian youth.
  • facilitate government formulation of adequate welfare policies for the Nigerian youth.
  • inculcate in stakeholders the need to improve the wellbeing of the youth.
Development Issues
HIV/AIDS, Youth, Rights.
Key Points
AHHF believes that for youth to creatively and meaningfully participate in this democratic dispensation there is need for their economic empowerment through the provision of jobs, education, health care facility, shelter and other social economic rights. “Youth constitute more than half Nigerian population, yet they lack adequate welfare provisions as, proper education, good health care and employment programme are not provided for them. Youth as we believed can only be encourages through knowledge and skill building to become community problem solvers.”
Sources

AHHF sent an e-mail to The Communication Initiative on November 26 2004.