Welcome to Peace Corps Morocco's Sexual Health Committee website! The committee consists of eight volunteers (PCVs) who have a passion for work involving the promotion of sexual health/healthy relationships, HIV prevention, and the empowerment of young people so that they may make informed decisions about their health and their lives. The committee met in late 2013 and voted to expand the mission of the SIDA committee to include education about general sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and safe sex outreach.
We are now the Sexual Health Committee, and we are continuing on the path of helping Peace Corps Volunteers start the conversation about sexual health and healthy relationships in their respective communities.

IN THE NEWS

• For 2015: A new online training video for PCVs is up and available! Now, PCVs can access SIDA and sexual health training program via YouTube. The videos are concise and to-the-point. A great way to stay informed about the A-B-C's of SIDA and what volunteers can do to strengthen the health of their communities. It's HERE.

• DEC. 2014 UPDATE:  Morocco's Ministry of Health begins a fifth awareness campaign to identify and combat HIV/AIDS in the country. Read more here.

• Peer-to-peer education (youth teaching youth) is a great way to foster positive behavior change in young people. UNICEF brief on peer-to-peer education.

• 2014 agreement to introduce comprehensive sex education in some pilot program   Moroccan schools. Read more!

• What does HIV infection look like in Morocco and Arab region. Check out this graph!

• Morocco has 33,000 HIV cases, half are among women. Empowering women can help stop the spread of HIV!