Tackle
Description
Tackle uses the power and popularity of football to deliver HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information and services to young people on football pitches.
We do this by training teachers and community leaders to use fun, interactive football sessions with inbuilt health messaging with their players. Alongside receiving sexual health information during football sessions, players also have the chance to access sexual health services at sessions and football tournaments, such as HIV testing, condoms, menstrual health products and other contraception, and referrals to further clinical services.
Football provides a platform for regular sexual health education with a respected and informed coach and creates a safe space for young people to discuss sensitive issues.
Our programmes improve understanding of key sexual health issues, give young people the skills and confidence to make safe decisions, and provide access to youth friendly services.
Our vision is a world where all young people in their diversity and those most at risk have the information, understanding, confidence, freedom, and resources to make informed choices about HIV and their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Our purpose is to provide young people living in the countries in which we work with HIV, SRHR, and related support through football programmes and coaching that will have a significant positive impact on decision making and behaviours, in turn limiting the impact of HIV and sexual health issues within communities in Africa.
Our objective: Tackle informs, supports, and challenges young people to make safer decisions, limiting the impact of HIV in their communities. Working through local partners, we add value to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) programmes aiming to empower disadvantaged young people and create better futures for them and their communities.
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