To our stakeholders, volunteers, and colleagues, 

I am excited and pleased to share with you that, pending funding, our first edition of Healthy and Smart, To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc.’s (TLC) HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum for youth, is ready for implementation. 

 For those of you who may be less familiar with the curriculum, TLC developed Healthy and Smart in response to the escalating HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, particularly among young women. Healthy and Smart was conceived as an education tool to effect change through educating youth concerning the HIV/AIDS risk, and most importantly, how to prevent infection.  The focus on HIV supports TLC’s overall mission, as HIV not only yields significant biological and social costs, but is also detrimental economically.  HIV and AIDS are known to hamper efforts to reduce poverty and have negative impacts on educational development. An additional consequence is the increase in the numbers of people living in extreme poverty.  specifically targets youth in the most vulnerable populations. Current data show that youth and young adults are at the core of the pandemic in terms of transmission, susceptibility, impact, and capacity for change. 

 Meg

 Margaret (Meg) Meador, MPH

Vice President, International Public Health

To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc.

Article: Collaborative Methodology for Public Managers and NGO Leaders: Implementing Social Change Policy 

By D.r David Kenneth Waldman and Margaret Meador

This article spotlights a collaborative partnership approach to develop and garner support for Healthy and Smart, a HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum.