Our Impact

“We are in the business of prevention not cure”

We want to reach one million Nigerian teenagers with our programmes, making maximum impact that would change risky behaviors and cause positive changes and significant changes in the high rates of:

1. Teen pregnancies.

2. HIV/AIDS infections.

3. Early school dropout among girls.

Our journey has begun. Join us to make maximum impact with our Sugar Daddy awareness Classes that has been proven to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies by 28% in the consequent year.

Evidence

We focus only on what has been proven to work, and works well within our context. This is why our premier programme, the Sugar Daddy Awareness Class, is a star intervention programme when it comes to reducing the high rates of HIV infections and unwanted teen pregnancies in our sub saharan Africa.

In the below study carried out in sub Saharan Africa by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, our Sugar Daddy Awareness Class  was compared to three other popular intervention programmes in order to measure their impact and cost on combating HIV infections, Teen pregnancies and school drop-out. Our SADC programme not only proved to have way more impact than the others, but also proved to be the cheapest and most effective way to change adolescent sexual behavior.

Read more about the result of the study here 

Our ‘Sugar Daddy’ Awareness  Class is an HIV/AIDS prevention class providing free relative  risk information for youths. This intervention has been proven in a randomised trial to result in a 28 percent decrease in teen pregnancy, an objective proxy for the incidence of unprotected sex. These results show that teenagers are highly responsive to risk information interventions like our Sugar Daddy Awareness Class compared to other intervention programmes.

Read the Evidence from this field experiment here

For more  on the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab visit here

Reports

What Next?

Leveraging on our experience, success and results from our pilot in Abuja, our next initiatives are to:

  • Scale in the 4 cities with the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria:

            Rivers-15.2%
            Taraba-10.5%
            Kaduna- 9.2%
            Nasarawa-8.1%

  • Generate evidence to aid in effective programme design and policy formulation. Knowledge of HIV status among adolescents in Nigeria is very low. Over 96% of adolescents surveyed have never had an HIV test. We are scoping to determine what the biggest barrier to assessing HIV testing services testing in Nigeria is. We want to generate evidence that would help to design effective programmes to combat this trend.                                                                                                                  
  • Go beyond prevention to empowering at risk girls via scholarships and financial empowerment. Our ‘Keep a Girl in School’ programme is raising funds for the up keep and education of  ‘at risk’ adolescents and young women to support them all through school to graduation. We want to do more.