Breakthrough Champion Advocacy Toolkit

Overview

This Breakthrough Champion Advocacy Toolkit is targeted towards strengthening the capacity of adolescents and youth to advocate for addressing HIV treatment inequalities to end AIDS. The Toolkit serves as a training manual for the Breakthrough Partnership’s adolescent champions to develop advocacy skills and gain knowledge about HIV treatment gaps and differentiated service delivery — which is the offering of treatment service as per the needs of different groups of clients instead of one-size-fits-all approach.

The Toolkit provides information about foundations of advocacy, examples of how to plan for effective advocacy, and the resources to become an advocacy champion. It provides key messages on the advocacy goals of the Breakthrough Partnership. The Toolkit should serve as a reference for the ViiV Breakthrough Champions both in their
engagement with this project to advance the service delivery framework, and in future HIV advocacy as well. The Breakthrough Partnership shows that when organizations work in partnership with one another, together with local stakeholders (government, clinics, communities, and AYPLHIV*) they can offer better services and improve treatment and care for children, adolescents, and young people living with HIV.

By working through the Toolkit, you should be able to do the following: define advocacy, identify your role as an advocate, discover how power impacts advocacy, share key messages about ending pediatric and adolescent HIV and AIDS, and describe ways that you can share your message as an advocate.