Term: 20 January 2023 – 31 December 2024
Myles John Mwansa is the Executive Director for the Zambian Network of Young People Living with HIV (ZNYP+). He is an expert in SRH/HIV with a background on Development Issues affecting people living with HIV. Experienced in SRHR/HIV prevention, strategies, through community collaboration and best practice approach interventions.
He works with young people and provides peers support and leadership in achieving an objectives on a specific target and goals that strengthens youths, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and Adolescents Boys and Young Men to have a meaningful voice in decisions making that affect their health, having a youth-designed and peer-supported HIV linkage and retention program integrated into public health facilities, as well as linking Adolescents and young people to different platforms that creates impact to the needs of adolescents that addresses major issue that concerns Adolescents and Young People living with HIV.
The Zambian Network of Young People Living with HIV (ZNYP+) Is a National Organization for young people living with HIV.ZNYP+ aims to improve the quality of life of young people living with HIV and those affected by pursuing support, communication, and representation on issues affecting them by using community structures and youth -friendly spaces. The network supports adolescent girls and young people living with HIV in project programming and advocacy both at national and international level in fostering HIV care and adherence to free HIV by 2030. It plays a key role in promoting community approach in reaching to young key populations in different diverse. The network has been implementing different projects for the past years through collaboration with different partners both locally and internationally.