The BraveHeart Initiative is a youth-led organization started in 2002 and headquartered Edo State, Nigeria. BraveHeart is committed to training young people in rural areas on sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRRH) and HIV prevention so they become legally aware, economically independent, and socially responsible community members to create a better society.

BraveHeart’s mission is to create a dialogue between young people and their communities in order to develop strategies that address young peoples’ SRRH challenges. As a part of this commitment, BraveHeart has:

• Organized a seminar on HIV/AIDS for rural youth on HIV prevention, stigma and discrimination, and dispel myths about HIV;
  
• Created a free HIV counseling and testing center for artisans, orderlies, and barbers; and
  
• Conducted a sexuality education seminar for 100 students from 10 public schools to teach them about their sexual and reproductive health and rights so they can protect themselves against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.

Click here to read a speech given by Priscilla Ikos Usiobaifo, Program Coordinator of BraveHeart Initiative at the official ceremony of Nigeria's 49th Independence Day celebration held at Public Field, Igarra, Edo State.

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