Career Bridge Conference 2026

31/12/2025

Happy New Year 2026.

Wishing you a year filled with good health, steady progress, and meaningful moments. May the new year bring clarity, strength, and opportunities to move forward with purpose. Let’s take what we have learned and make better choices in the year ahead.

26/02/2024

🙏🙏🙏

Alas-dyes Session Highlight:
𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬.

Letting go and moving on can be part of . As much as we want to hold on to love, some relationships need to end for us to become better people.

Dito po nagtatapos ang aming Alas-dyes Session. Sana napanood niyo lahat ng episode! ❤️ Maraming salamat po!

06/05/2023

Types of Disclosure

1. Non disclosure, client does not disclose status to anyone.

2. Partial disclosure, the client only tells certain people about his or her status for example the spouse , a relative, a counselor or a friend. The information revealed might be full or partial.

3. Full disclosure, the client publicly reveals his or her status. The information might be fully revealed to individuals, a group of people or an organization.

4. False disclosure, client tells individuals or the public false information for example if the client tested HIV positive, the instead tells people that he or she tested negative.

5. Shared confidentiality, disclosure upon condition that the person revealed to will not tell others, unless specific permission is given.

6. Voluntary disclosure, client voluntarily shares information about his or her HIV status. This may be a partial disclosure.

7. Involuntary disclosure, a client's status is revealed without his or her approval.

20/04/2023

FAMILY PLANNING
Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children.
Family planning is determine the spacing of their pregnancies.

1. Male condom
To prevent s***m and egg from meeting

2. Female condom
To prevent s***m and egg from meeting

3. Male Sterilization ( vasectomy)
Keeps s***m out of ej******ed semen

4. Female sterilization ( tubal ligation)
Eggs are blocked from meeting s***m

5. Withdrawal method
Out of the woman's body preventing meeting the egg

6. Implants
S***m and egg from meeting and prevents ovulation thickens cervical mucus to block. This goes up to 5 years .

7. Morning after pill
Prevent or delays the release of eggs from the ovaries.

8. Monthly injectable or Noristerat
Prevents the release of eggs from the ovaries ( ovulation)

9. IUCD goes up to 12 years

20/04/2023

Peer Educators Recommend You Practice A,B,C

ABSTINENCE
Did you know that abstinence is about delaying s*xual activity? Abstaining or delaying unprotected s*xual in*******se is the best way a young person can protect themselves from HIV infection.

B- BE TESTED AND BE FAITHFUL
S*xually activity young people need to know their partners HIV status by going together to have an HIV test . To protect each other from HIV infection they need to be 100% faithful to each other if they are not using condoms every time they are having s*xual in*******se.

C- CONDOMIZE
S*xually activity young people who want to avoid HIV infection, s*xually transmitted infections and pregnancy need to practice the three C's
Correct, consistent, condom use - this means using a male or female condom correctly , every time you have s*xual in*******se.

09/04/2023

Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia - PPAZ
Youth Action Movement - YAM Zambia

Amazing great session we had today......

Topic : GENDER (Gender Equality and Gender Equity)

We defined Gender as a socially constructed norms that impose and determine roles, relationships and positional power for all people across their life time, gender interacts with s*x, the biological and physical characteristics that define women, and inters*x identities, and we went on and looked at Gender identities, Gender identity refers to the feeling that you are male, female or transgender. And perception of one's gender and how they label themselves common identities labels include men, women, genderqueer, Trans and more. Often confused with biological s*x or s*x assigned at birth. S*x - biologically determined differences between males and females which are universal. S*x is shaped by different genitalia and reproductive organs.Many things contribute to the formation of gender identity, including society, family and factors that are in place before birth.Many societies have strict rules about activities, jobs and appearances which are based on deep-seated ideas about what is appropriate for someone based on their gender.

We further looked at Gender Equality, this is the Equal recognition and values regardles of gender. This means all human beings are free to develop their personal abilities and make choices without being limited by stereotypes role or prejudices based on biological s*x and gender identities. It doesn’t mean that all people become the same but their rights, responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on them being male or female. And Gender Equity this means that one focuses on crediting the same condition (a level playing field) for everyone, it has the goal of providing everyone with the full range of opportunities and benefits to achieve equal opportunities. This might mean providing some groups with more advantages in order to assist them reaching equa

08/04/2023

KEY FACTS ABOUT FAMILY PLANNING

Among the 1.9 billion Women of Reproductive Age group (15-49 years) worldwide in 2019, 1.1 billion have a need for family planning; of these, 842 million are using contraceptive methods, and 270 million have an unmet need for contraception.

The proportion of the need for family planning satisfied by modern methods, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 3.7.1, has stagnated globally at around 77% from 2015 to 2020 but increased from 55% to 58% in the Africa region.

Only one contraceptive method, condoms, can prevent both a pregnancy and the transmission of s*xually transmitted infections, including HIV.
Use of contraception advances the human right of people to determine the number and spacing of their children.

BRIEF OVERVIEW ON FAMILY PLANNING

Ensuring access for all people to their preferred contraceptive methods advances several human rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of opinion and expression and the right to work and education, as well as bringing significant health and other benefits. Use of contraception prevents pregnancy-related health risks for women, especially for adolescent girls, and when births are separated by less than two years, the infant mortality rate is 45% higher than it is when births are 2-3 years apart and 60% higher than it is when births are four or more years apart [4]. It offers a range of potential non-health benefits that encompass expanded education opportunities and empowerment for women, and sustainable population growth and economic development for countries.

The number of women desiring to use family planning has increased markedly over the past two decades, from 900 million in 2000 to nearly 1.1 billion in 2020. Consequently, the number of women using a modern contraceptive method increased from 663 million to 851 million and the contraceptive prevalence rate increased from 47.7 to 49.0 per cent. An additional 70 million women are projected to be added by 2030

08/04/2023

CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS

Methods of contraception include oral contraceptive pills, implants, injectables, patches, vaginal rings, Intra uterine devices, condoms, male and female sterilization, lactational amenorrhea methods, withdrawal and fertility awareness based methods.

These methods have different mechanisms of action and effectiveness in preventing unintended pregnancy. Effectiveness of methods is measured by the number of pregnancies per 100 women using the method per year.

1. Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) or “the pill”
Prevents the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation) 0.3

2. Progestogen-only pills (POPs) or "the minipill"
- Thickens cervical mucous to block s***m and egg from meeting and prevents ovulation

3. Implants
- Thickens cervical mucous to blocks s***m and egg from meeting and prevents ovulation

4. Progestogen only injectables
- Thickens cervical mucous to block s***m and egg from meeting and prevents ovulation

5. Monthly injectables or combined injectable contraceptives (CIC)
- Prevents the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation)

6. Combined contraceptive patch and combined contraceptive vaginal ring (CVR)
- Prevents the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation)


7. Intrauterine device (IUD):
-copper containing Copper component damages s***m and prevents it from meeting the egg .

Intrauterine device (IUD) levonorgestrel Thickens cervical mucous to block s***m and egg from meeting

8. Male condoms
- Forms a barrier to prevent s***m and egg from meeting

9. Female condoms Forms a barrier to prevent s***m and egg from meeting

10. Male sterilization (Vasectomy)
-Keeps s***m out of ej******ed semen

11. Female sterilization (tubal ligation)
-Eggs are blocked from meeting s***m

12. Lactational amenorrhea method (LAM)
- Prevents the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation) (in six months)

13. Standard Days Method or SDM
-Prevents pregnancy by avoiding unprotected vaginal s*x during most fertile days

07/04/2023

If you are pregnant or might be pregnant and cannot stop drinking alcohol, talk to your healthcare provider. They can help, and support is available.

07/04/2023

Happy good Friday