4 Youth By Youth | 4YBY

The work of 4 Youth By Youth is founded on the belief that young people have innovative and creative ideas for making their communities a healthier and safer place as they develop into adulthood. Creating an opportunity for young people to work alongside health activists, health professionals, researchers, mentors, and entrepreneurs with a special interest in involving young people at an early age to design interventions that are both inspired and informed by young people, allowing for a sustainable impact. The two current 4YBY programs are focused on youth-friendly HIV self-testing and high blood pressure/stroke prevention.

Sustaining Innovative Tools to Expand Youth Friendly HIV Self-Testing (S-ITEST) Grant
S-ITEST, is a follow-up to the initial I-TEST program that started in 2018 to work with AYA to define, evaluate, and implement intervention strategies to address HIV through preventative behavior modifications and youth self-testing. Now almost six years later, the team has added goals to continue developing youth-inspired strategies to sustain the interventions developed and implemented to date and ensure the at-risk youth will remain uninfected with HIV, despite living in a LMIC with resource constraints.

UG1 National Institutes of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development #UG1HD113156

Music4Health: Innovative Tools to Expand Music-Inspired Strategies for Blood Pressure and Stroke Prevention (I-TEST BP/STROKE) Grant
Music4Health is addressing the substantial burden of hypertension and stroke in a way Nigerians know and love – through music. By inviting members of the community to share their lyrics, voices, and spirits, we provide them a platform to share their talents while raising awareness and educating the Nigerian public on heart health. The team hopes this intervention strategy can be can the first of many replications targeting other resource-constrained locations to address underrepresentation and raise awareness about other preventable diseases.

R01 National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – Under fund #1R01HL168766-01